Jane Austen and the War of Ideas

Customer Reviews

A Modern Novelist - By: Mr. William Sibree, 30 Aug 2005
What I found exceptional & plausible about this book was that it debunked conclusively cosy notions about Jane Austen as a proto-Romantic & "Persuasion" as a turning point in her moral thinking. Marilyn Butler sees her for what she was: a political & moral conservative. But what Butler exposes so clearly is her radical & original approach to narrative & the novel. The changing lens of her narrative perspective - from totallly detached to infiltrated into one character - is streets ahead of her time. We begin to see how decades later someone can write "Madame Bovary" or "To the Lighthouse".

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See Austen in a very different light. - By: Bookworm1973, 17 Jan 2003
If you love Jane Austen, you should read this. It's a rather polemical presentation of her as a politicallly motivated writer, but don't let that put you off: even if you don't agree with the idea, it will add so much richness, context & depth to your enjoyment of the novels that it's definitely worth it.

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