Volume 22, Number 12 · July 17, 1975
Jane Austen's Militant Comedy
By V.S. Pritchett
Jane Austen
by Douglas Bush
Macmillan, 205 pp., $3.95 (paper)
Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays
edited by John Halperin
Cambridge University Press, 334 pp., $5.95 (to be published in September) (paper)
Sanditon
by Jane Austen. Another Lady
Houghton Mifflin, 329 pp., $8.95
'None has approached her in the economy of art,' said G. H. Lewes in his famous essay on Jane Austen written in 1859—an essay which put lasting new life into a reputation that had strangely languished. Economy has not been the merit of the immense amount of Jane Austen criticism written since, and this is evident in the nineteen bicentenary essays, by English and American academics, edited by Professor Halperin. By 1900, he says, admiration had reached surfeit and criticism had come to a halt, but it has revived again in the last twenty-five years with 'considerable virtuosity.'
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