{"product_id":"jane-austen-a-very-short-introduction-9780198725954","title":"Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction","description":"Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including three volumes of witty, non-realist juvenilia and the innovative, unfinished \u003cem\u003eSanditon\u003c\/em\u003e. She pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and\u003cbr\u003ehearts in narrative prose, and was a penetrating satirist of social tensions and trends in an era dominated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the socio-economic disruptions entailed by them. Yet Austen struggled for many years to break into print, and even as she became a published\u003cbr\u003eauthor in the last years of her relatively short life, reading tastes and book-trade expectations constrained as much as they enabled her literary career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eVery Short introduction\u003c\/em\u003e explores the major themes of Austen criticism through close analysis of her major and minor works, with particular emphasis on the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which the novels emerge, and with which they engage. Thomas Keymer combines critical\u003cbr\u003eintroductions to each of Austen's six major novels with an exploration of the key themes in her works, from national identity to narrative technique. The Austen who emerges is a writer shaped by the literary experiments and socio-political debates of the revolution decade, drawn in her maturity to a\u003cbr\u003efundamentally conservative vision of social harmony, yet forever complicating this vision through the disruptive ironies and satirical energies of her prose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eABOUT THE SERIES: The \u003cem\u003eVery Short Introductions\u003c\/em\u003e series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and\u003cbr\u003eenthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198725954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Tom Keymer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839060418741,"sku":"9780198725954","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6715ee4d-36e2-4f4e-84c4-123a77cd96f7.jpg?v=1646729630","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/jane-austen-a-very-short-introduction-9780198725954","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}