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Key ideas from the book
- Twenty questions offer a focused way to examine the details and conventions of Austen’s novels.
- Social customs, including courtship, forms of address, meals, and shopping, help clarify the fictional world.
- Questions about wealth and church livings illuminate practical aspects of life represented in the novels.
- Close attention to Austen’s narrative choices reveals aspects of her technique as a novelist.
- Austen’s letters and life provide context for her reading, finances, and theater-going.
About What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
John Mullan examines Jane Austen’s novels through twenty focused questions about their details and conventions. The chapters consider such subjects as characters who never speak, proposals of marriage, forms of address, meals, shopping, inherited wealth, and how vicars obtained livings.
By attending to the social rituals and practical arrangements in Austen’s fiction, Mullan shows how close reading can illuminate her choices as a novelist. Passages from Austen’s letters and details from her life provide context for episodes in the novels, including her reading, finances, and experience of the theater. This study will interest Austen readers seeking a deeper understanding of her fiction, as well as readers of literary criticism and Regency-era social history.
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