000340371 000__ 02968cam\a2200301\a\4500 000340371 001__ 340371 000340371 005__ 20210513123631.0 000340371 008__ 090401s2009\\\\nyu\\\\\\b\\\\000\0\eng\\ 000340371 010__ $$a 2009012904 000340371 020__ $$a9781400068050 (alk. paper) 000340371 020__ $$a1400068053 (alk. paper) 000340371 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn310399787 000340371 035__ $$a340371 000340371 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dVP@$$dCDX$$dFHP 000340371 049__ $$aISEA 000340371 05000 $$aPR4037$$b.T78 2009 000340371 08200 $$a823/.7$$222 000340371 24502 $$aA truth universally acknowledged :$$b33 great writers on why we read Jane Austen /$$cedited by Susannah Carson ; foreword by Harold Bloom. 000340371 24633 $$aTruth universally acknowledged :$$bthirty three great writers on why we read Jane Austen 000340371 250__ $$a1st ed. 000340371 260__ $$aNew York :$$bRandom House,$$cc2009. 000340371 300__ $$axx, 295 p. ;$$c25 cm. 000340371 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographic references. 000340371 5050_ $$aWhy we read Jane Austen : young persons in interesting situations / Susanna Clarke -- The radiance of Jane Austen / Eudora Welty -- Six reasons to read Jane Austen / Rebecca Mead -- Jane Austen : the six novels / E. M. Forster -- A life among the manuscripts : following in the steps of Dr. Chapman / Brian Southam -- Reading Northanger Abbey / Susannah Carson -- On Sense and Sensibility / Ian Watt -- From "Why we read Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling -- Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice / W. Somerset Maugham -- Force of love : Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen / Martin Amis -- The nerds of Pride and Prejudice / Benjamin Nugent -- Austen portrays a small world with humor and detachment / J. B. Priestley -- Pride and Prejudice and the mysteries of life / Anna Quindlen -- A note on Jane Austen / C. S. Lewis -- Jane Austen and the good life / Louis Auchincloss -- What became of Jane Austen? / Kingsley Amis -- from "Jane Austen : Mansfield Park" / A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre -- The modest art of altering life / Alain De Botton -- Let others deal with misery / Fay Weldon -- Fanny was right : Jane Austen as moral guide / James Collins -- Why I like Jane Austen / Janet Todd -- Why do we read Jane Austen? / John Wiltshire -- The girls who don't say "whoo!" / Amy Heckerling -- Reading and rereading Emma / David Lodge -- from "Emma and the legend of Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling -- The perfections of Jane Austen / Eva Brann -- from "The myth of limitation" / Donald Greene -- Terrible Jane / Amy Bloom -- Some thoughts on the craft of Austen's Persuasion / Diane Johnson -- Nothing but himself / Margot Livesey -- Jane Austen at sixty / Virginia Woolf -- Beautiful minds / Jay MacInerney. 000340371 520__ $$aWhy are readers so fascinated by Jane Austen's novels? In essays culled from the last 100 years of criticism, great authors and literary critics of the past and present offer insights into her writing and her unique appeal to readers across generations. 000340371 60010 $$aAusten, Jane,$$d1775-1817$$xAppreciation. 000340371 60010 $$aAusten, Jane,$$d1775-1817$$xInfluence. 000340371 7001_ $$aCarson, Susannah. 000340371 85200 $$bgen$$hPR4037$$i.T78$$i2009 000340371 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:340371$$pGLOBAL_SET 000340371 980__ $$aBIB 000340371 980__ $$aBOOK