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1987 · réf. 010076 — Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford University 1987. 5.25" wide by 8.5" tall. Appears unread. Bright clean tight square unmarked copy. No creases. No store stamp owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. This softcover edition is the first to include a new 38-page Introduction by the author. Index. From the publisher: "It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas Austen was not isolated from reading novels and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previous generation the Jacobin novel of William Godwin the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth -- all conveyed their own kind of ideological meaning. By recognizing Austen's relationship to the literature of ideas Butler offers acute readings of each of the novels and an intellectual context in which to see them as a whole." "The work is stimulating and controversial. Highly original in concepts it is given authority by topnotch scholarship. Highly recommended for all students of the novel." -- Choice. 1st Softcover ed with new Introduction. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. xlvi 310pp . Clarendon Press, Oxford University Paperback