Entertaining and occasionally shocking facts and trivia about Austen's life and work
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist. Readers seem to have a neverending appetite for the swooning of Sense &amp; Sensibility and the smoldering passion of Pride &amp; Prejudice, resulting in a near constant supply of film adaptations and spin-off books. This book reveals the real Jane—bitchy, gossipy, and badly behaved at times—as well as showing the side we all love—the writer, the sister, and the true romantic. It also covers her best loved characters like Mr. Darcy and Marianne, novel and film locations, gossip and flirting, hangovers and fashion, and holidays and writing advice.

The Jane Austen Miscellany

Nixon, Lauren

Reference

The History Press

Considers how war and conflict were central to the Gothic as a developing genre in the late eighteenth century.\nThe Gothic at War explores and analyzes how Gothic fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries utilized the form to explore the anxieties and fears of a nation at war, tracing a lineage and legacy of engagement from Horace Walpole through to Clara Reeve and Ann Radcliffe and beyond. The figure of the soldier is prevalent in the pages of the Gothic novels of this period. He is sometimes a heroic pinnacle of masculinity, sometimes a devious villain, and yet also often a fraught, uncertain figure.\nThis book unravels the Gothic’s engagement with Britain’s anxieties and ideologies about the military and nationality as the conflict following the French Revolution unfolded.

The Gothic at War: Masculinity in Conflict, 1760–1818 (Gothic Literary Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

University of Wales Press

'Jane Austen: A celebration' brings together aspects of Austen's life, work and lasting legacy to give a fresh and detailed insight into one of the world's most beloved writers. Coinciding with the 200-year anniversary of the first publication of Sense and Sensibility, this title is a must for anyone has ever enjoyed Jane Austen. The book includes sections in the places and people that inspired her, as well as a carefully chosen selection of her personal correspondence. It also looks at Austen's modern success, with an examination of her recent popularity in film and television. In addition to being an authoritative and readable text, A Celebration of Jane Austen is filled with beautiful high colour images. It includes many of the elegant illustrations of Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock. Thomson rose to fame as the illustrator of Coaching Days and Coaching Ways in 1888 and Brock, a talented artist, was part of the revival of Austen's work towards the end of the Victorian period. Their delicately tinted illustrations capture the romance, classic styles and nuances of the Regency period. The illustrations and photographs on every page of A Celebration bring Austen's world vividly to life.

Jane Austen: A Celebration of Her Life and Work

Worth Press Ltd.

Complete World of Jane Austen

Worth Press

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