Jane Austen – Two Centuries of Criticism Mazzeno Paperback Boydell and Brewer

Jane AustenTwo Centuries of Criticism\nAuthor(s): Laurence W Mazzeno\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640140066, 978-1640140066\nSynopsis\nA comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.\n\nAmong the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from her works enjoy strong box-officesuccess. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was longneglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction against Victoriani.