Jane Austen & Company: Collected Essays - Softcover

Stovel, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888645481 ISBN 13: 9780888645487

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2011

Synopsis

Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis-comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.

About this title

Book Description:

A study on Jane Austen and her comic novelist predecessors and successors.

About the Author:

Bruce Stovel (1941-2007) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta. He co-edited two collections of essays on Austen and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Stovel's passion for teaching, literature, and blues music was celebrated in Jane Austen Sings the Blues.

Nora Foster Stovel is Professor of English at the University of Alberta, where she teaches twentieth-century literature and Canadian women's fiction. She has published books and articles on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, and Margaret Laurence, most recently Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings.

Juliet McMaster is University Professor Emerita in English at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a long-time literary critic and author of highly readable books on Jane Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0888645481
• ISBN 13: 9780888645487
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Stovel Nora