What matters in Jane Austen? twenty crucial puzzles solved

ISBN: 9781408828731 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1408828731 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2012.

Mullan, John 1958- (Author).

Summary: Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And which important Austen characters never speak? In What Matters in Austen, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction - by asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals their devilish cleverness.