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Searching
for Jane Austen "The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor. . . . Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here."—Publishers Weekly In this revolutionary study of Jane Austen's
life and writings, Emily Auerbach "[Auerbach's] detailed knowledge of Austen's sources [gives] us a more complete impression of Austen's wide and eclectic interests."—New York Review of Books "Emily Auerbach's approach to Jane Austen is lively, engaging, and thoroughly modern. Like Austen, Auerbach wears her wide learning lightly and imparts a great deal of information in a most enjoyable manner. A witty, approachable introduction to Jane Austen for today's readers, using modern analytical techniques to reveal new aspects of a great writer."—Margaret Drabble, editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature "This 'search' for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view."—Booklist
"Innovative, indeed revolutionary. A major new study of Austen's work." —Joseph Wiesenfarth, author of Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel For publicity information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email:
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Emily
Auerbach is professor of English
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, cohost of Wisconsin
Public Radio's University of the Air, and director of
the Courage to Write series of radio documentaries on
brave women writers. She has won numerous teaching, broadcasting,
and arts awards and has published books, guides, and articles
on nineteenth-century literature. Auerbach holds a lifetime membership
in the Jane Austen Society of North America.
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