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Jane Austen's Art of Memory by Jocelyn Harris is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jane Austen's Art of Memory about?
Jane Austen's Art of Memory offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art. It argues that, with the help of her tenacious memory, she engaged in friendly dialogue with her predecessors, the English writers, a process that the eighteenth century called 'imitation'. Her allusions, far from being random, thicken and complicate her novels in a manner that is poetic rather than mimetic. Difficult critical cruxes resolve when her books are set within her own great tradition w
Who reads Jane Austen's Art of Memory?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jocelyn Harris
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521363914
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Poetry, Literary Criticism, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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