简•奥斯汀(牛津名人系列丛书）

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玛里琳·巴特勒专事于18世纪末至19世纪初的文学研究，曾任牛津大学埃克塞特学院院长（1993-2004）。1986年至1993年期间，她是剑桥大学爱德华国王七世学校的教授。巴特勒著有《简·奥斯丁与观念的战争》（1975）。编辑介绍了多个版本的《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》和《诺桑觉寺》。她还出版了《浪漫主义者、反叛者及反动分子》（1981）一书，并编有《玛丽亚·埃奇沃思作品集》（1999-2003）。

作者简介
1、童年
2、成长为一名作家
3、早期小说
4、奥斯丁在乔顿
5、死亡与肖像
6、奥斯丁的声誉
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索引

The making of a writerSociety and theatricalsIn his Memoir of Jane Austen, Edward Austen-Leigh planted the tradition, subscribed to bymost twentieth-century critics and biographers,that Austen the novelist, was substantially cre-ated at home. Thanks to tuition by her fatherand brothers, Jane was exposed as a child tothe eighteenth-century essayists Joseph Addison,Richard Steele, and Samuel Johnson and to thenovelists Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney.It is probably true that the clarity, sharpness,and wit of the prose of Austen's juvenilia indi-cate attentive reading in the century's stylists, agood ear for the balance of a sentence, and soundregard for verbal economy. Her seniors did right by her on these counts, but they cannot have done everything. Austen's immersion in contem- porary popular fiction began at school and was equally fundamental. At the Abbey House School she amused herself as her socially mixed class mates did in following the adventures and trials of modern woman, as these were purveyed most readily and cheaply in a handful of specialist mag azines, such as George Robinson's monthly miscellany, the Lady's Magazine (established 177o). In his first issue Robinson boasted that he catered for the widest possible range of taste, status, and income, from a duchess to a newly literate housemaid. In each issue from a quarter to a third of the space was likely to be occupied by fiction, much of it sent in by readers, who might set theirnarratives in stylized exotic worlds or in common domestic life among the middling sort. But the standard plotline for most longer fiction, whether published in multi-volume book form or serial ized in a magazine, was the courtship~ of lovers of unequal rank and means, involving the woman particularly in picaresque adventures and trials, with a happy ending always in jeopardy from.