Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith

This book explores what it means to read the six major works of Jane Austen, in

light of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smith

had a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead,

it argues for the possibility that two authors who never met could between them

write something into being, both responding to and creating a novelistic zeitgeist.

This, the book argues, can be called co-writing. This book will appeal to students

and scholars of the novel, of women's writing, and of Smith and Austen specifically.

Argues a far more profound influence of Smith on Austen Shifts our understanding more broadly about how writers interacted with those they read Examines a broader range of Smith's work than usual - nearly her whole corpus

Autorentext

Professor Jacqueline M. Labbe is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at De

Montfort University, UK. She has also worked at the University of Sheffield and

the University of Warwick, UK. She has published extensively on the poetry and

fiction of the Romantic period, including the first full-length study of Smith and

Wordsworth.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Emmeline in Austen.- Chapter 2: Women and Men.- Chapter 3: Codes and Outcomes.- Chapter 4: (In)Sensibility.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.