Austen's Emma.

9780826498472

Austen's Emma.

Hecimovich, Gregg A.

Continuum Publishing Group

2008

119 pages

$75.00

Hardcover

Continuum reader's guides

PR4034

It was the novel that made her truly famous. The reading public loved it, the critics approved, and even Jane Austin herself had a certain fondness for it. Independent scholar Hecimovich focuses not only on the crowd-pleasing elements of Emma, but also includes serious analysis of Austin's sophisticated language, style and form. Along with providing very helpful contexts for the modern reader, including a very objective treatment of the savage marriage market of the time, Hecimovich provides a full review of critical responses by such luminaries as Sir Walter Scott and a concise biography that reveals much about Austin's frequently needy but formidable family. Readers get a clear picture of Austen's motives in Emma, including her hope, just beneath the surface, that women would one day not need to sell themselves into marriage to survive.

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