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Author: Michael Greaney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.40cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781350254206
ISBN 10: 1350254207
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 20 October 2022
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The 26 pint-sized essays comprising A Jane Austen A-Z are stuffed full of insights. Each is a masterpiece in miniature. Learned yet playful, Michael Greaney teaches readers new things about the forms and preoccupations of Austen's fiction. * Deidre Lynch, Professor of Literature, Harvard University, USA * Michael Greaney's Jane Austen A to Z is a perfectly judicious and highly entertaining atlas of the great novelist's life and writings. Each short chapter is an informative delight, from A for Accident to Z for Zig-Zag, in a book cleverly written both for those in want of an engaging first primer, as well as those who already know Austen down to a T. * Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar, Arizona State University, USA *
The 26 pint-sized essays comprising A Jane Austen A-Z are stuffed full of insights. Each is a masterpiece in miniature. Learned yet playful, Michael Greaney teaches readers new things about the forms and preoccupations of Austen’s fiction. * Deidre Lynch, Professor of Literature, Harvard University, USA * A unique guide to the life and career of a much-loved author. … It sheds new light on key images, ideas, objects, people and places in Jane Austen’s writings. … This neatly organised book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer’s way with words. * Lancashire Life * Michael Greaney’s Jane Austen A to Z is a perfectly judicious and highly entertaining atlas of the great novelist’s life and writings. Each short chapter is an informative delight, from A for Accident to Z for Zig-Zag, in a book cleverly written both for those in want of an engaging first primer, as well as those who already know Austen down to a T. * Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar, Arizona State University, USA *
Author Information
Michael Greaney is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK where he teaches a first-year module on Austen’s unfinished works and a third-year module on her major works. He is the author of three monographs, the most recent of which is Sleep and the Novel: Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present.
