Reading Jane Austen

Whether you''re new to Austen''s work or know it backwards and forwards already this book provides a clear full and highly engaging account of how Austen''s fiction works and why it matters. Exploring new pathways into the study of Jane Austen''s writing novelist and academic Jenny Davidson looks at Austen''s work through a writer''s lens addressing formal questions about narration novel writing and fictional composition as well as themes including social and women''s history morals and manners. Introducing new readers to the breadth and depth of Jane Austen''s writing and offering new insights to those more familiar with Austen''s work Jenny Davidson celebrates the art and skill of one of the most popular and influential writers in the history of English literature.