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Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20020101
Author:Clark, Robert

Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality. By Christopher Brooke. Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xii + 224 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]; $45.

The subtitle of this study would seem to imply an entire innocence of those critical debates that have troubled the old dichotomies of illusion and reality, fiction and truth, in the years since Lionel Trilling and D. J. Harvey talked about the novel as a repository of moral truth. Indeed, whilst Christopher Brooke is aware that `historians who regard [Austen's] novels as transcripts of real life deceive themselves' (p. 9) he also has an unabashed ...

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