![]() ![]() How Experimental a Novelist is Jane Austen?Įveryone will come away with a different highlight from the book, based on where your interest lies.They don’t need to be read in any particular order – you can pick and choose from the ones that interest you most, although I read the book straight through and enjoyed it greatly. It’s entertaining, it’s approachable, and it’s incredibly helpful if you want to understand the nuances of Austen that are either very subtle or which would have been obvious to her contemporaries but not so much to modern readers.Ĭritic John Mullan divides his book into twenty short chapters. What Matters in Jane Austen is a fantastic piece of literary criticism that reveals a lot of new angles on Jane Austen. ![]()
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