Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis151;comic novelists all. And comedy is the connection between these twelve elegant essays by the distinguished academic Bruce Stovel, who most lovingly engages Austen herself through his studies of her comic novels, her art of conversation, her pleasure principle, and her prayers. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel, the collection includes an introduction by Juliet McMaster and an afterword by Isobel Grundy.
- Genre: Literary Collections, Literary Criticism
- Subgenre: General, Essays
- Publisher: Univ of Alberta Pr
- Pages: 235
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: February 15, 2011
- Date Published: February 15, 2011