{"product_id":"the-life-of-the-author-jane-austen-isbn-9781119779346","title":"The Life of the Author: Jane Austen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fresh approach to building the life of Jane Austen through her letters, demonstrating that a well-known life can be reframed by being grounded in evidence of that life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a literary-biographical journey through Austen's life in letters. Using a unique non-linear approach, author Catherine Delafield explores three frames for Austen's literary life—family, correspondents, and fiction—to suggest new pathways for the interpretation of life writing about one of the most popular and influential English novelists of all time. Delafield addresses multiple aspects of Austen's epistolary practice and the ways in which her letters, juvenile writings, and unpublished novels have been overlaid on both biography and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout the text, special attention is paid to the changing view of women’s correspondence as personal record and to Cassandra Austen's role as editor of her sister’s surviving letters. The book opens with selected readings from Austen's letters and a review of the family treatment of the life. Subsequent chapters discuss the female circle of correspondents in both extant and missing letters, the letter content and structure of Austen's novels, the use of letters as representations of places and spaces based on Austen's own lived experience of epistolary communication, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses how the letters, correspondents, and novels supplement Jane Austen’s fiction and substantiate her life\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights Austen's use of the letter as a conversation on paper, rather than as an autobiographical tool\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the letters within Austen's fictional writing as well as recipes, accounts, and needlework with links to the letters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a select chronology using letters as landmarks, tables representing surviving letters by correspondent, and family trees tracing names and relationships\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: Jane Austen \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the novel, women's writing, British writing, and life writing, as well as for general readers with interest in gaining new perspectives on Austen's chronological life and literary output.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Texts and Abbreviations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Chronology of Letters ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Life in Letters 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Austen's Life in Letters 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Austen's Letters in Family 'Lives' 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Cassandra and Correspondence 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Sisterhood of the Letters 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Novels in Letters: Letters into Novels 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Letters and Novels: Places and Spaces 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Letters and Patchwork: Scraps in the Life 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Letters and Biography: Prisms, Kaleidoscopes, 'Elephants \u0026amp; Kangaroons' 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Delafield\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar based in Devon, UK. She has previously taught at the University of Leicester and has published on women's life writing, diaries, and the serialization of popular fiction. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines, and Women's Letters as Life Writing 1840-1885\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Delafield presents a non-linear approach to building and reframing a well-known life. Grounded in evidence of that life — Jane Austen’s letters, selected juvenile writings and unpublished versions of her novels — this unique volume explores Austen’s literary life within themes of family, correspondent, and fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDelafield addresses multiple aspects of Austen’s epistolary practice, such as the use of letters as representations of absence and place and suggests pathways to new interpretations of Austen’s chronological life and literary output. The author places particular emphasis on Austen’s female circle, the “sisterhood” of correspondents, as well as Cassandra Austen, the editor of the surviving letters. Throughout the book, Delafield considers the ways Austen’s life evidence has been applied to both fiction and biography from the nineteenth century to the present.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Featuring a select chronology using letters as landmarks, tables representing surviving letters by correspondent, and family trees tracing names and relationships, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of the Author: Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable resource for Austen enthusiasts looking for fresh literary-biographical perspectives, and an excellent textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses on the novel, women’s writing, British writing, and life writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990278455525,"sku":"NP9781119779346","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119779346.jpg?v=1761787174","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-life-of-the-author-jane-austen-isbn-9781119779346","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}