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Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook
Contemporary Review, Winter, 2007
Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook. Fiona Stafford, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]60.00. ix + 319 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-517530-1. This collection of fourteen essays, introduced by the editor, originated with OUP New York. In that introduction Miss Stafford refers to the debates that have raged round Jane Austen's novels since their publication.
This collection gives readers insights into past and current thought about one of Jane Austen's most famous novels. It begins, appropriately, with the author's own collection of reactions to her novel and then moves on to an essay by Sir Walter Scott and after that, to Reginal Farrer's 1917 appreciation. After this we have Lionel Trilling's 1957 essay into the 'legend' of Jane Austen and essays on her 'control of distance', on the role of women in the novel, on 'self, society and text' in the novel, on the role of desire, on the novel as a story of health, on marriage in the novel, on filming the novel, on the novel in a neo-colonial world, on the novel's treatment of English patriotism and, finally, on the 'impact of form' on the text. (A.C.)
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