Description
| Product ID: | 9780198737452 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| Title: | Teenage Writings |
| Authors: | Author: Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland, Freya Johnston |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Short stories, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fiction run riot here: drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder. ''Jane Austen practising'' Virginia WoolfThree notebooks of Jane Austen''s teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody.Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer''s eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen''s later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-04-20 |