Contributor
Swisher, Clarice, 1933-
Imprint:San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1997.
Description206 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Jane Austen: a biography. - England in Austen's time / Fay Weldon. - Austen's women in a conservative society / David Monaghan. - Nineteenth-century criticism of Austen's novels / John Halperin. - Sex and social life in Austen's novels / Jan Fergus. - Humor in Austen's novels / A.C. Bradley. - Austen portrays a small world with humor and detachment / J.B. Priestley. - Stylistic devices that create irony / Andrew H. Wright. - Games as a device in Austen's novels / Alistair M. Duckworth. - Satire and realism in Northanger Abbey / Norman Sherry. - Sense and Sensibility has little irony / John Odmark. - Minor characters reflect the theme of Sense and Sensibility / Howard S. Babb. - The best qualities of Pride and Prejudice / W.Somerset Maugham. - Clashes and compromises in Pride and Prejudice / Laura G. Mooney ham. - The significance of pictures in Pride and Prejudice / Tony Tanner. - Good manners mirror good morals in Pride and Prejudice / Jane Nardin. - Portraits of people in Austen's Emma / Richard Church. - Emma: heroine with faults / Douglas Jefferson. - Mansfield Park: the portrayal of quiet, complex love / June Dwyer. - Persuasion: Austen's new kind of novel / Marvin Mudrick. - Persuasion and the Cinderella story / D.W. Harding.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-200) and index.
