Teenage Writings

Teenage Writings
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0198737459

The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fiction run riot here: drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder.

Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) and Her Relations to English Culture

Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) and Her Relations to English Culture
Author: Hilary Brown
Publisher: MHRA
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1904350429

The 18th century saw the first significant phase of cultural interchange between Britain and Germany. This study examines the part played in this process by women writers, who were entering the literary world in large numbers for the first time. It asks whether women whether a cross-cultural female literary tradition emerged during the period.

Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1

Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1
Author: Gary Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000749894

This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.

Hartly House, Calcutta

Hartly House, Calcutta
Author: Michael Franklin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526134381

This novel represents a key document in the literary representation of India and the imperial debate, profoundly challenging pre-existent discourses of colonialism.

Jane Austen the Reader

Jane Austen the Reader
Author: O. Murphy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137292415

Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response to the writing of others: as parody, satire, criticism and even, on occasion, homage. Seeing Austen as a critic offers new insights into her creativity, and new interpretations of her novels.