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A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen by Jenkyns, Richard
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780199276615
- Book Title
- Fine Brush on Ivory : an Appreciation of Jane Austen
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good story-tellers, and there are highly gifted story-tellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good story-teller and a great novelist. How did she do it? Was it all due to native talent? Or did she serve an apprenticeship to her craft, to learn from experience, and from the example of other writers? Richard Jenkyns' sparkling study delights inAusten's craft and wit. His deep reading of the novels illuminates the subtlety, depth and innovation that lies within them. He explores the development of her style, storytelling and characterization, her technical prowess, and her place in comparison with her contemporaries with a grace and witworthy of the subject herself. All who read this book will come away with their admiration for Austen deepened, and their pleasure in her work enhanced.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199276617
ISBN-13
9780199276615
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30762158
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fine Brush on Ivory : an Appreciation of Jane Austen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr4037
Reviews
Jenkyns is especially convincing when engaging critically, and at length, with D.W. Harding's famous distinction between 'character' and 'caricature' in the fiction..., 'A beautifully crafted essay. This is a small and elegant Christmas present for all enthusiasts.'FT Magazine, The book is written with great grace and elegance, and shows the development of [Austen's] genius as a storyteller. I felt that I knew a lot about her, but this book has given me new insights for which I'm grateful., 'a beautifully crafted essay . . . This is a small and elegant Christmas present for all enthusiasts.'FT Magazine, "The subtitle of his slim volume perhaps best sums up the theme: this is indeed an appreciation of Austen and her work. This theme is carried out with gusto. Jenkyns contends early on that there is hardly another novelist of whom one may so readily say, 'That chapter, that paragraph, that sentence is a moment of genius'... Highly recommended."--Library Journal
Table of Content
1. Beginnings2. The Shape of Comedy3. The Character of Character4. A Park With a View5. The Prisoner of Hartfield
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2005-270860
Dewey Decimal
823/.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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