Jane Austen A Life

by David Nokes (Author)
November 1998
First Edition
Paperback
$36.95
Title Details

Rights: Not available in Brit Comm; Incl.US and Territ CA,PH
Pages: 592
ISBN: 9780520216068
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 8 black-and-white photos.

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About the Book

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."

About the Author

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