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Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Claire Harman
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Description for Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary legacy. The slow growth of Austen's fame, the changing status of her work, and what it has stood for in English culture is a story of personal struggle and family dynamics as well as a history of critical practices and changing public tastes.
Jane's Fame is essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847675330
SKU
V9781847675330
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21
About Claire Harman
Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson. She writes frequently for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reviews for Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
A deft, elegant exploration of the cult of all thing Austen . . . a happy blend of critical insight and narrative bounce, making Jane's Fame a fine addition to the current trend for analysing posthumous lives.
Guardian
Harman is particularly good on how writing became the centre of [Jane's] life . . ... Read more
Guardian
Harman is particularly good on how writing became the centre of [Jane's] life . . ... Read more