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What's Been Happening to Jane Austen?

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From: The Hudson Review
Date: 20040701
Author:Pritchard, William H

THERE'S AN ADMIRABLE SORT OF READER for whom the above question doesn't need asking, since what's been happening to Jane Austen has been happening ever since Walter Scott assured readers that "Those . . . who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of that knowledge, by the perusal of such fictions as those before us." Such general readers find it eminently natural and highly pleasurable to reread the six finished novels at regular intervals, always encountering something to make the latest reading a fresh one. They may or ...

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