
Emma
Jane Austen(Author)
John Mullan(Editor)
Oxford University Press
5th Edition
Published on 3. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-19-883775-6 (ISBN)
Description
'I wonder what will become of her!'
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition.
Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition emphasises the novel's extraordinary technical audacity. While apparently conservative in its choice of setting and range of characters, it was - and is - a formally revolutionary work.
So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition.
Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition emphasises the novel's extraordinary technical audacity. While apparently conservative in its choice of setting and range of characters, it was - and is - a formally revolutionary work.
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Series
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-883775-6 (9780198837756)
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Jane Austen | James Kinsley
Emma
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04/2008
Oxford University Press
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Persons
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets (2009) for Oxford World's Classics as well as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (2019). He is the author of The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020), What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).
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Editor
Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English LiteratureProfessor of English, University College London
Content
Introduction
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Jane Austen
EMMA
Explanatory Notes
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Jane Austen
EMMA
Explanatory Notes