Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN num: 9781581826456
ISBN number: 1581826451
Label: Cumberland House Publishing
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: July 01, 2008
Publishing house: Cumberland House Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 7472211
Studio: Cumberland House Publishing
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Two centuries after they were very first published, Jane Austen's novels are still best-sellers. Dozens of other novelists continue the stories of her characters in their own works, and Hollywood producers invest millions to make movies of her books and life for her fans and readers.
Writer of Fancy: The Playful Piety of Jane Austen provides an overview of her life, character, and legacy. Austen was a modest artist who knew her limitations, devoted herself to her craft, and avoided the developing culture of literary celebrity and hype. Paying attention to the details of life around her, she rendered these particulars with precision in her novels, even to the point of advising her nieces about their love lives. Her laughter echoes through her novels, filling them with an 'impish infectious gaiety.'
Much of the English-speaking world loves the romance, gossip, order, and politeness of Austen's world. Others scorn Austen and the bodices, balls, uptight men and de-sexed women, tedium, triviality, and ditzy sentimentality of it all. Neither gets her right. Fans and critics alike miss Austen's real genius: comedy and sometimes brutal satire. Moreover, those who enjoy her playful wit rarely recognize its religious sources, forgetting that many of the greatest satirists and humorists of English literature were devout Christians.
The Jane Austen that emerges from the pages of Writer of Fancy is neither a prim prude nor a delicate flower. She is a woman of strong conviction and playfulness, a woman of deep religious faith whose impish mockery could verge on cruelty. She was an unmarried woman who felt the charms of handsome men, a woman who disliked unruly children but loved her nieces and nephews, a poor woman who counted her shillings but was generous with friends and neighbors, a contentedly feminine woman who wished she could go shooting with her brothers. In short, she was a highly imaginative and thoroughly practical woman.
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