Teenage Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198737459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has created a digital edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2012), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (2005) and general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock
* Reader's Digest * a brilliantly readable editionWhat is often most engaging and amusing about this bravura writing is Austen's un-restrained comic mayhem. Professor Kathryn Sutherland and University Lecturer Freya Johnston skilfully edit this fascinating collection of Austen's early teenage writings This new edition provides fresh readings of individual texts, and the explanatory notes accompanying them offer to expand our sense of what the young Austen might have been reading and responding to at the time. * Francis O'Gorman, Reviews31 *
Three notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misbehavior, theft, and even murder prevail. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. It is as if Lydia Bennett is the narrator.. Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page