What Matter in Jane Austen? by John Mullen
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For May we will be discussing What Matters in Jane Austen? By John Mullen
Here is a description of the novel on amazon;
Jane Austen's novels have been a staple of the English canon since the nineteenth century. Yet critics of the time did not appreciate the true complexity of her work. Nothing, John Mullan argues, is accidental or coincidental in Austen. As Austen herself said, she wrote for readers who have "a great deal of ingenuity themselves."
What Matters in Jane Austen? gets to the heart of what it is that makes Austen's work so singular. In twenty chapters, answering questions her novels have posed for over two centuries, Mullan uncovers the hidden truth of an extraordinary fictional world and reveals the true brilliance--and underappreciated complexity--of Austen's work.
John Mullen is a professor, an author, and an expert on Jane Austen. He is a very popular lecturer and guest on many podcasts and the like. He is in many Youtube clips if you would like to hear what he has to say.