{"product_id":"jane-austen-and-her-predecessors-paperback-9780521148252","title":"Jane Austen and her Predecessors (Paperback) 9780521148252","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJane Austen and her Predecessors\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a study of influences on Jane Austen's art and views of life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank W. Bradbrook (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521148252, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 3 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a study of influences on Jane Austen's art and views of life. She assimilated and transformed certain writings of earlier essayists and novelists; she was herself a potent influence. Dr Bradbrook provides the literary critic with a fresh position from which to inspect the novels. He isolates several kinds of influence that had affect on Jane, which he inspects one by one. First there are the periodical essayists, the moralists in prose and the writers of conduct books. These were sources of general reflections on moral and social behaviour: and especially interesting to Jane Austen when they touched on the position of women. Dr Bradbrook sketches her knowledge of and taste in the drama and poetry of the eighteenth century. In the second half of the book Dr Bradbrook analyses the influence that earlier novelists had on Jane Austen. Useful appendices reproduce some of the rarer sources.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The General Literary Tradition: 1. Periodicals\u003cbr\u003e 2. Moralists in prose\u003cbr\u003e 3. The picturesque\u003cbr\u003e 4. Drama and poetry\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Tradition in the Novel: 5. The beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 6. The feminist tradition\u003cbr\u003e 7. Other influences\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Books for young ladies\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Lady Sara Pennington's An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3. Mrs Jane West's Letters to a Young Lady\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 4. William Gilpin: An Essay upon Prints\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006710862104,"sku":"9780521148252","price":34.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521148252i_a08441d2-1ed7-4b85-961c-cf696fc8f01c.jpg?v=1691372511","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/jane-austen-and-her-predecessors-paperback-9780521148252","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}