Jane Austen (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Jane Austin's work is valued for its penetrating revelation of character, complex moral insight, and sophisticated comic vision. This volume studies her work, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and "A Pair of Fine Eyes." This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.