Calling Jane Austen's Emma charming, Harold Bloom states, Austen is not writing a tragedy of the will... but a great comedy of the will. He goes on to say that her heroines have firm selves, each molded with individuality that suggest the author's potential for creating an endless diversity.
The title, Jane Austen’s Emma, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jane Austen’s Emma through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jane Austen, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
