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In this new biography of Jane Austen, David Nokes plays master sleuth and storyteller in presenting the great novelist "not in the modest pose which her family determined for her, but rather, as she most frequently presented herself, as rebellious, satirical, and wild."
Price: $36.95
Pages: 592
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
19 November 1998
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520216068
Format: Paperback
David Nokes is a Reader in English Literature at King's College, London. He is the author of John Gay: A Profession of Friendship (1995), and Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (1985).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Family Secrets
Chapter 1 Family Secrets
PART II Steventon
Chapter 2 Noisy and Wild
Chapter 3 Growing Up
Chapter 4 Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant
Chapter 5 Profligate and Shocking
Chapter 6 I Say Nothing
PART III Labyrinths
Chapter 7 Conspiracy
Chapter 8 The Wrong Place
Chapter 9 Abuse Everybody but Me
PART IV Chawton
Chapter 10 One's Own Concerns
Chapter II Wild Beast
Chapter 12 A Little Disguised
Chapter 13 My Own Style
Chapter 14 Pictures of Perfection
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Family Secrets
Chapter 1 Family Secrets
PART II Steventon
Chapter 2 Noisy and Wild
Chapter 3 Growing Up
Chapter 4 Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant
Chapter 5 Profligate and Shocking
Chapter 6 I Say Nothing
PART III Labyrinths
Chapter 7 Conspiracy
Chapter 8 The Wrong Place
Chapter 9 Abuse Everybody but Me
PART IV Chawton
Chapter 10 One's Own Concerns
Chapter II Wild Beast
Chapter 12 A Little Disguised
Chapter 13 My Own Style
Chapter 14 Pictures of Perfection
Notes
Index