What Matters in Jane Austen?
Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
Ranked #51 in Jane Austen
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.
In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen's novels, Mullan... more
In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austen's novels, Mullan... more
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