Brian C. Southam
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Publisher, Athlone Press, London. Author of Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts; Tennyson; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Jane Austen was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Inā¦
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Publications (3)
Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts A Study of the Novelist's Development through the Surviving Papers. Revised Edition (August 2006)
Jane Austen's Literary Manuscripts remains the definitive account of the novelist's surviving papers. These date from 1787 to 1817, from the first beginning to the veyr end of her writing career. Their evidence considerably deepens our understanding of the imaginative process that stands behind the composition of the great novels. In Sanditon, the last work, we see the promise of a further and startling development in her art. The influence of her childhood reading and home life is considered in...
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Jane Austen and the Navy (2005)
Based on family and naval records, this book presents Jane Austenāauthor ofMansfield Park,with its vivid depiction of life in Portsmouth; andPersuasion,with its account of naval officers and attitudesāas a historian of Nelsonās navy. It is not the navy of his great victories but is instead the navy at home, of sailors among their families and friends, set against the background of war and revolution; observed, as always, with Austenās shrewd eye for detail.
Jane Austen (Critical Heritage Series) (1968)
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