ジェイン・オースティン十代の作品集（オックスフォード世界古典叢書） Teenage Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

Austen, Jane/ Sutherland, Kathryn (EDT)/ Johnston, Freya (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2017/04発売）

Oxford University Press（2017/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198737452
• DDC分類 823.7

Full Description

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf

Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she soon began to imitate and parody.

Unlike many teenage writings then and now, these are not secret or agonized confessions entrusted to a private journal and for the writer's eyes alone. Rather, they are stories to be shared and admired by a named audience of family and friends. Devices and themes which appear subtly in Austen's later fiction run riot openly and exuberantly across the teenage page. Drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder prevail.

Contents

VOLUME THE FIRST; VOLUME THE SECOND; VOLUME THE THIRD; FAMILY CONTINUATIONS TO VOLUME THE THIRD; APPENDIX