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Jane Austen
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Standard Name: Austen, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Austen
Pseudonym: A Lady
Styled: Mrs Ashton Dennis
JA
's unequalled reputation has led academic canon-makers to set her on a pedestal and scholars of early women's writing to use her as an epoch. For generations she was the first—or the only—woman to be adjudged major. Recent attention has shifted: her balance, good sense, and humour are more taken for granted, and critics have been scanning her six mature novels for traces of the boldness and irreverence which mark her juvenilia. Her two unfinished novels, her letters (which some consider an important literary text in themselves), and her poems and prayers have also received some attention.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Elliott | One or two Jane Austen
readers (recently Kathryn L. Shanks Libin
) have speculated that Austen may have been perpetrating a joke by attaching the scandal of GE
's married name and birth name (Dalrymple... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
opens her story with Jane Fairfax as a little orphan growing up in the family of Colonel and Mrs Campbell, whose naughty daughter Euphrasia is a likable foil to her throughout. She ends it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | Here the first-person male narrator, a tiny dwarf-like man named Phineas Gilbert Nanson, on impulse abandons his work towards a PhD in English (Byatt skewers a gallery of predictably eccentric and pretentious academics), rejecting poststructural... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | If, as June Sturrock
writes, The Clever Woman of the Family is CY
's Emma, then Rachel's aspirations (which are civic-minded where those of Austen
's Emma are individual and self-serving) are far more sweepingly put down. Sturrock, June. "Heaven and Home": Charlotte M. Yonge’s Domestic Fiction and the Debate over Women. University of Victoria, 1995. 61 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Drabble | Imagery of postpartum fluidity, particularly lactation, characterizes the lovers' growing passion and the descriptions of female sexual desire and orgasm. The narrative alternates between a schizoid third-person dialogue Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Penguin, 1971. 130 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anita Brookner | Again the protagonist, Kitty Maule, has a mixed national heritage: French/Russian and English. Again she is emotionally impoverished though academically successful; again she falls in love with a charismatic and unattainable man, Maurice Bishop. His... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | She quotes Byron
on the title-page. Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley, 1845. title-page |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer
, she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero
's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah More | Harriet Corp
also responded, in 1817, with Coelebs Deceived, which opens with respectful critical dialogue about More's novel; but Corp's middle-aged protagonist finally decides to stay single. Mary Waldron
suggests that Jane Austen
's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The film shows the play being auctioned, and bought by an Off-Broadway group who produce it in Absurdist style. While they work at it, period motifs in the plot (notably the abduction of Harriet Byron)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | G. B. Stern | GBS
opens the second Austen book with an amusing account of an interview with a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old niece who relates how she has fallen seriously in love with a dashing army officer who is her ideal... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | Her narratives of these emotional involvements lead her into analysis of the different effects of love on the two sexes. This analysis is founded on two women writers (identifiable although she does not name them)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | These provided the pattern for Thomas Moore
's very fashionable Irish Melodies. Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988. 62 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Patricia Beer | This collection shows a deliberate inclination towards subjects whose strangeness startles the reader with an unexpected perspective. The title of the book is a phrase applied to the audience in Concert at Long Melford Church... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Mary Wollstonecraft
, though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body... |
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