The scholarship attached to Jane
Austen's works is massive. We have focused in this very brief introduction to
the criticism on reviews by other major authors and on the best of contemporary
criticism. These serious scholar should start here, then review the
bibliographies for more extensive treatments of individual topics.
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Early Criticism |
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Bowen, Elizabeth |
The English Novelists. 1936. |
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Forster, E.M. |
Abinger Harvest. 1936. |
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Lascelles, Mary |
Jane Austen and Her Art (revised edition). Athlone Press,
1995. (originally 1941) |
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Smith, Sheila K. and G.B. Stern |
Talking of Jane Austen. 1943. |
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Woolf, Virginia |
The Common Reader. 1925. |
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Current Critical Views |
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Auerbach, Emily |
Searching for Jane Austen. University of Wisconsin Press,
2005. |
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Butler, Marilyn |
Jane Austen and the War of Ideas |
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Copeland, Edward |
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
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Deresiewicz, William |
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets |
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Jenkyns, Richard |
A Fine Brush on Ivory |
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Miller, D.A. |
Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style |
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Ross, Josephine |
Jane Austen: A Companion. Rutgers University Press, 2003. |
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Tyler, Natalie |
The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well Mannered Introduction to
a Lady of Sense and Sensibility |
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