For many readers Jane Austen is the quintessential English author. Jane Austen sets out to explore the history of this identification with Englishness in the context of a tradition of criticism that has frequently tried to achieve the reverse: to establish her difference, and distance, from โusโ. Rather than simply showing how she differs from the โheritageโ Austen, Robert Miles argues that many of the reas ...Full description
For many readers Jane Austen is the quintessential English author. Jane Austen sets out to explore the history of this identification with Englishness in the context of a tradition of criticism that has frequently tried to achieve the reverse: to establish her difference, and distance, from โusโ. Rather than simply showing how she differs from the โheritageโ Austen, Robert Miles argues that many of the reasons for Austenโs construction as an English Cultural icon are to be found in the worksโ formal qualities, and often in her most innovative techniques.