This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits and agriculture to transport. An essay on the reception of Austen's work is also included, showing how criticism of Austen has responded to literary movements and fashions. The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.

A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.

About the Author
Janet Todd is Herbert J. C. Grierson Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen.

Reviews
"Jane Austen deserves, and here gets, the reward of other people's skillful work on her little bit of ivory, two inches wide.... The Cambridge Edition justifies its claim to the 'the first ever scholarly edition of the works of Jane Austen', and is a fine tribute to her for the twenty-first century." -Jane Austen Society Newsletter



Book Information
ISBN 9780521688536
Author Janet Todd
Format Paperback
Page Count 498
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 588g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 30mm