Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith

Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith
ISBN-10
3030388298
ISBN-13
9783030388294
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
136
Language
English
Published
2020-06-03
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Jacqueline M. Labbe

Description

This book explores what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, in light of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smith had a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead, it argues for the possibility that two authors who never met could between them write something into being, both responding to and creating a novelistic zeitgeist. This, the book argues, can be called co-writing. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the novel, of women’s writing, and of Smith and Austen specifically.

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