Julia Prewitt Brown

Analyzes Austen's novels in terms of their structure, ironic comedy, satiric realism, and their perception of the cultural significance of marriage

Social Change and Literary Form

Jane Austen's Novels

Martin Price

Susan Gubar

Ian Watt

Sandra M. Gilbert

Susan Morgan

Deborah Kaplan

Gene W. Ruoff

Gary Kelly

Joel Weinsheimer

Alice Chandler

Ruth ApRoberts

Ann Molan

Robin Grove

A collection of critical essays on Austen and her works. Also includes a chronology of events in her life.

Jane Austen

The city, with its manifold distractions and violence, its invitation to intoxication and dream, had long served to represent the experience of modernity in works of art at the time John Schlesinger made his acclaimed urban documentary ‘Terminus’ in 1961. To be a reader of the city was to be a reader of modern life, and Schlesinger was a discriminating, at times relentless, reader of the city throughout his career, especially in his three greatest films, ‘Midnight Cowboy’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘The Day of the Locust’, set in New York, London and Los Angeles, respectively. His character-driven stories, evocation of the significance of the everyday, and insistence on ambiguities of situation and motive – all qualities he was known for – point to literary influences that reach back to the nineteenth century and earlier. ‘The Films of John Schlesinger’ is not only the first book to fully acknowledge those influences, but also the first book to explicate the power of his art to capture the modern, urban experiences of becoming an adult in an atmosphere that relentlessly promotes fantasies of success and wealth; of coming to terms with one’s national identity in the context of international politics; and of attempting to transform the past, both personal and cultural, into a viable present.

The Films of John Schlesinger

Julia Prewitt Brown

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