Later Manuscripts (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107620406 ISBN 13: 9781107620407

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together, for the first time, all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years (with the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, in this edition printed with the finished novel), together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. Included here are the novella 'Lady Susan', the novel fragments of 'The Watsons' and 'Sanditon', poems and charades, and the comic 'Plan of a Novel'. In an Appendix are collected other works ascribed to Austen, including the play 'Sir Charles Grandison' and three prayers. The introduction offers a history of the manuscripts and a full account of the current state of scholarship on them, and the texts are accompanied by explanatory notes and contextual information.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume collects together all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years, together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels. The texts are accompanied by an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and detailed textual information about the manuscripts.

About the Author:

Janet Todd is Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen.

Linda Bree is Publisher for Literature at Cambridge University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107620406
• ISBN 13: 9781107620407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 874
• Editor: Todd Janet, Bree Linda