Teenage Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198737459 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misbehavior, theft, and even murder prevail. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Three notebooks of Jane Austen's early writings survive. It is as if Lydia Bennett is the narrator.. Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entr
She is the author of Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709-1791 (2005) and general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (2016).. Kathryn Sutherland is the editor of Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections for Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digital edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2012), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2017. She
Professor Kathryn Sutherland and University Lecturer Freya Johnston skilfully edit this fascinating collection of Austen's early teenage writings This new edition provides fresh readings of individual texts, and the explanatory notes accompanying them offer to expand our sense of what the young Austen might have been reading and responding to at the time. * Francis O'Gorman, Reviews31 * . * Reader's Digest * a brilliantly readable editionWhat is often most engaging and amusing about this bravura writing is Austen's un-restrained comic mayhem