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Austen's Emma (Reader's Guides). Gregg A. Hecimovich

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Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Page: 126
ISBN: 0826498477, 9780826498472

Review

"Clueless about Emma? This new student guide could be your best friend while reading the novel." — Laurel Ann, Austenprose, January 4, 2009

"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." —Book News, February 2009

“Clueless about Emma? This new student guide could be your best friend while reading the novel.” – Laurel Ann, Austenprose, January 4, 2009

“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.” –Book News, February 2009

About the Author

Gregg A. Hecimovich is Chair in the Department of English and Associate Professor at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA.