A Fine Brush On Ivory
An Appreciation of Jane Austen
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 February 2007
- ISBN 9780199210992
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 200x130x14 mm
- Weight 254 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? Jenkyns's sparkling study delights in Austen's craft, wit, and pathos, and explores the subtlety, depth, and innovation that forever mark her out as a supreme storyteller. A Fine Brush on Ivory will enhance the admiration and pleasure of all those who enjoy Austen's work.
MoreLong description:
What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good storytellers, and there are highly gifted storytellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good storyteller and a great novelist. How did she do it? Richard Jenkyns's sparkling study delights in Austen's craft, wit, and pathos. His deep reading of the novels illuminates the subtlety, depth, and innovation that lie within them. He explores the development of her style, storytelling, and characterization, her technical prowess, and her place in comparison with her contemporaries, with a grace and wit worthy of the subject herself. All who read this book will come away with their admiration for Austen deepened, and their pleasure in her work enhanced.
Review from previous edition Having fine-combed each of Austen's novels, Jenkyns offers up a feast of his personal meditations and reflections . . . this is a book which will inspire many to dust off their Austen collections so as to re-acquaint themselves with her elegant prose
Table of Contents:
Beginnings
The Shape of Comedy
The Character of Character
A Park with a View
The Prisoner of Hartfield
The Sense in Sensibility
