Alistair M. Duckworth
Autore di The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Duckworth, Alistair McKay
- Data di nascita
- 1936
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- Johns Hopkins
University of Edinburgh - Attività lavorative
- professor
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- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 50
- Popolarità
- #316,248
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
First of all, anyone who reads this book should be familiar with the plots of all Austen’s novels; Duckworth is a scholar writing to other scholars, and he clearly doesn’t care about “spoiling” the plots for anyone! Because of the academic orientation of this book, the writing style is pretty dry, and Duckworth also spends a lot of time referring to other scholars and discussing their interpretations of Austen’s work. That said, I found his arguments very interesting, and mostly quite persuasive. I particularly liked his interpretation of Mansfield Park, which he gives in the first chapter (although he discusses all the other novels in chronological order); it makes a lot of sense and makes Fanny Price a slightly more likeable character for me. This book isn’t intended for a general audience, but a diehard Austen fan or eighteenth-century scholar would probably find it interesting.… (altro)