奥斯丁（牛津名人传记丛书）

章节摘录

　　The making of a writerSociety and theatricalsIn his Memoir of Jane Austen, Edward Austen-Leigh planted the tradition, subscribed to bymost twentieth-century critics and biographers,that Austen the novelist, was substantially cre-ated at home. Thanks to tuition by her fatherand brothers, Jane was exposed as a child tothe eighteenth-century essayists Joseph Addison,Richard Steele, and Samuel Johnson and to thenovelists Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney.It is probably true that the clarity, sharpness,and wit of the prose of Austens juvenilia indi-cate attentive reading in the centurys stylists, agood ear for the balance of a sentence, and soundregard for verbal economy. Her seniors did right by her on these counts, but they cannot have done everything. Austens immersion in contem- porary popular fiction began at school and was equally fundamental. At the Abbey House School she amused herself as her socially mixed class mates did in following the adventures and trials of modern woman, as these were purveyed most readily and cheaply in a handful of specialist mag azines, such as George Robinsons monthly miscellany, the Ladys Magazine (established 177o). In his first issue Robinson boasted that he catered for the widest possible range of taste, status, and income, from a duchess to a newly literate housemaid. In each issue from a quarter to a third of the space was likely to be occupied by fiction, much of it sent in by readers, who might set theirnarratives in stylized exotic worlds or in common domestic life among the middling sort. But the standard plotline for most longer fiction, whether published in multi-volume book form or serial ized in a magazine, was the courtship~~ of lovers of unequal rank and means, involving the woman particularly in picaresque adventures and trials, with a happy ending always in jeopardy from.

内容概要

玛里琳·巴特勒专事于18世纪末至19世纪初的文学研究，曾任牛津大学埃克塞特学院院长（1993-2004）。1986年至1993年期间，她是剑桥大学爱德华国王七世学校的教授。巴特勒著有《简·奥斯丁与观念的战争》（1975）。编辑介绍了多个版本的《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》和《诺桑觉寺》。她还出版了《浪漫主义者、反叛者及反动分子》（1981）一书，并编有《玛丽亚·埃奇沃思作品集》（1999-2003）。

书籍目录

作者简介1.童年2.成长为一名作家3.早期小说4.奥斯丁在乔顿5.死亡与肖像6.奥斯丁的声誉资料来源索引

编辑推荐

　　《名人：奥斯丁》由上海译文版社出版。名人传记，专家执笔；材料真实，妙趣横生；语言地道，原汁原味；注释简明，通俗易懂。　　上海译文出版社与牛津大学出版社联袂推出牛津名人传记丛书，从莎翁到丘吉尔，从达尔文到牛顿，可谓群星璀璨，读之令人受益匪浅、难以释卷……

作者简介

本书是“牛津名人系列丛书”的一本。形式为英文原文+部分词汇、短语及文化点的注释。该丛书引进自牛津大学出版社，融权威性、简明性、趣味性于一体，语言流畅、地道、准确，内容广博，可读性强，从莎士比亚到丘吉尔，从达尔文到维多利亚女王，囊括了英国历史上最重要、最具影响力的非凡人物。该丛书是广大英语爱好者的最佳读物，是史学、文学爱好者的最佳脚本，是中学生、大学生英语学习的最佳课外英语读物。《简·奥斯汀》的作者是英国当代知名人物传记作家Marilyn。作品主要介绍英国十八世纪著名女作家简·奥斯汀的生平与创作，及其代表作《傲慢与偏见》和《爱玛》。

目录

作者简介

1、童年

2、成长为一名作家

3、早期小说

4、奥斯丁在乔顿

5、死亡与肖像

6、奥斯丁的声誉

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