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Raff's sparkling reinterpretation of Austen's relationship to the didactic tradition will please and edify not only Austen-scholars and Austen-lovers, but also students of the history of the novel. She teaches us new things about that literary form's most charismatic mechanisms of narrative address, while she makes us realize anew the extent of the Austen novel's seductive powers. Deidre Lynch, author of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees

Raff's sparkling reinterpretation of Austen's relationship to the didactic tradition will please and edify not only Austen-scholars and Austen-lovers, but also students of the history of the novel. She teaches us new things about that literary form's most charismatic mechanisms of narrative address, while she makes us realize anew the extent of the Austen novel's seductive powers. --Deidre Lynch, author of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees By means of intelligent close reading, Sarah Raff traces Austen-mania back to Jane Austen's rhetorical seduction of her niece Fanny Knight, and then the reader. Her intriguing new investigation of the secret in the sentences goes a long way towards explaining just how Jane Austen keeps us all in her thrall. --Jocelyn Harris, author of A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion

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Sarah Raff is Associate Professor of English at Pomona College. She served as the foreign fiction correspondent for Publishers Weekly from 1997 to 1998.

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