Teenage Writings
$23.34
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2017
Summary
‘Jane Austen practising’ by Virginia Woolf
Three notebooks of Jane Austen’s teenage writings survive. The earliest 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. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody.
Unlike many teenage writings then and now, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198737452 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198737459 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland, Freya Johnston |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
…a brilliantly readable [edition]…What is often most engaging and amusing about this bravura writing is Austen’s un-restrained comic mayhem. * Francis O’Gorman, Reviews31.co.uk *
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. * Reader’s Digest *
Jane Austen
Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography & Textual Criticism in the University of Oxford. She is the editor of James Edward 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 (2010), the print edition of which is due to be published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).
Freya Johnston is University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. 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 - ).
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