Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage: 1870-1940

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
Critical Views 1869......Page 172
Hutton on the Memoir 1869......Page 173
Anne Thackeray on Jane Austen 1871......Page 177
Hutton on the minor works 1871......Page 184
Leslie Stephen 'the popularity of Miss Austen' 1876......Page 186
'of the second order' 1882......Page 188
Pellew's 'new criticism' 1883......Page 189
'narrow unconscious perfection of form' Henry James 1883......Page 192
The art of Jane Austen Mrs Humphry Ward 1885......Page 193
'maiden lady realism' George Moore 1888......Page 200
Austenolatry 1889......Page 201
'no hidden meaning' 1890......Page 202
'the modernness of her method' 1890......Page 204
'The Charm of Miss Austen' 1890......Page 208
The 'provincial' Jane Austen 1891......Page 211
Realism and 'entire truthfulness' Howells 1891......Page 215
Agnes Repplier on Jane Austen......Page 217
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront 1889......Page 218
'the fine, thin perfection' 1890......Page 219
'the secret springs' 1892......Page 220
'bores' 1893......Page 221
Re-readable 1894......Page 222
Life into art 1894......Page 223
Mrs Elwood's view 1908......Page 225
Saintsbury on Pride and Prejudice 1894......Page 227
'mistress of derision' Alice Meynell 1894......Page 232
'the greatest of them all' Willa Cather 1895......Page 235
The heroines Howells 1900  1......Page 236
Henry James on Jane Austen......Page 242
'her testimony complacently ends' 1914......Page 244
Mark Twain on Jane Austen......Page 245
'His prime abhorrence'......Page 246
'complete common sense' Chesterton 1913......Page 252
'her greatness as an artist' Virginia Woolf 1913......Page 253
Farrer on Jane Austen 1917......Page 258
'the means are as simple as the result is amazing' George Moore 1919......Page 285
'such cool perceptions' Middleton Murry 1922......Page 290
'waking the Jane Austenite up' E.M.Forster 1924......Page 292
'the forerunner of Henry James and of Proust' Virginia Woolf 1923/25......Page 294
'Novels preeminently of character' Edith Wharton 1925......Page 297
'the spirit of comedy' Herbert Read 1926......Page 298
'a great little novelist' Arnold Bennett 1927/28......Page 300
The style of the 'essayist' Herbert Read 1928......Page 302
'this comic patronage of Jane Austen' Rebecca West 1928......Page 303
The 'Divine Jane' lives on 1932......Page 304
'the feminism of Jane Austen' Rebecca West 1932......Page 306
'sense' and 'sensibility' William Empson 1936......Page 311
'she shocks me' W.H.Auden 1937......Page 312
Miscellanea 1871  1938......Page 313
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 315
SELECT INDEX......Page 317