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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Many of Austen's detractors, and even quite a few of her fans, regard "Jane" as a dull homebody who wrote light, fluffy books for girls. "This attitude must end," Auerbach fumes as she tries to "strip off [the] ruffles and ringlets" that have shaped the author's public image. The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor. Close readings of the novels, as well as the often ignored "juvenilia," reveal a rich literary sensibility dense with allusion—if you haven't read Austen already, the microscopic attention to detail here will make you pick up her books. Auerbach's scholarly background in 19th-century literature (she's a professor of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison) serves her well in this analysis, but her revisionist approach is most engaging when it wrestles with her subject's public image. She demonstrates how Austen's own family whitewashed that image by suppressing much of her correspondence, and riffs through an assortment of modern portrayals that bear little resemblance to the woman Auerbach uncovers. Like Austen's, Auerbach's humor can be sly. Subtly questioning Mark Twain's professed hatred of Austen, she imagines the pair as Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen. Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here, though the high price may prove an obstacle. B&w illus.
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From Booklist
The maiden aunt at the tea table is the idea many readers have of Jane Austen, an idea promulgated by her own family and perpetuated by Jane Austen societies and film representations of her novels. Auerbach, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to show that the cozy domestic image is belied by Austen's own writings, beginning with her juvenilia. This "search" for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view. It can be difficult to get past the lace cap and tea cosy and appreciate how deeply Austen penetrated the social fabric that seems so charming to the modern reader. This book probably won't appeal to fans who are content with the charm, but has much to offer those who want to explore Austen's art more fully. Mary Ellen Quinn
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
Many of Austen's detractors, and even quite a few of her fans, regard "Jane" as a dull homebody who wrote light, fluffy books for girls. "This attitude must end," Auerbach fumes as she tries to "strip off [the] ruffles and ringlets" that have shaped the author's public image. The Austen sketched here is an ambitious novelist, confident in her superior talent, with a subversive and biting sense of humor. Close readings of the novels, as well as the often ignored "juvenilia," reveal a rich literary sensibility dense with allusion—if you haven't read Austen already, the microscopic attention to detail here will make you pick up her books. Auerbach's scholarly background in 19th-century literature (she's a professor of English at University of Wisconsin–Madison) serves her well in this analysis, but her revisionist approach is most engaging when it wrestles with her subject's public image. She demonstrates how Austen's own family whitewashed that image by suppressing much of her correspondence, and riffs through an assortment of modern portrayals that bear little resemblance to the woman Auerbach uncovers. Like Austen's, Auerbach's humor can be sly. Subtly questioning Mark Twain's professed hatred of Austen, she imagines the pair as Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen. Readers who enjoyed the novel The Jane Austen Book Club will find similar pleasures here, though the high price may prove an obstacle. B&w illus.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
The maiden aunt at the tea table is the idea many readers have of Jane Austen, an idea promulgated by her own family and perpetuated by Jane Austen societies and film representations of her novels. Auerbach, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to show that the cozy domestic image is belied by Austen's own writings, beginning with her juvenilia. This "search" for Jane Austen finds the playfulness and irreverence of her early writings present, to varying degrees, in all of the novels, but also finds a daring and powerful artist polishing her craft. Novel by novel, Auerbach overturns patronizing concepts about Austen's tiny canvas and limited view. It can be difficult to get past the lace cap and tea cosy and appreciate how deeply Austen penetrated the social fabric that seems so charming to the modern reader. This book probably won't appeal to fans who are content with the charm, but has much to offer those who want to explore Austen's art more fully. Mary Ellen Quinn
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
See all Editorial Reviews
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