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Editor's note.(Jane Austen)(Editorial)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20050101
Author:Kaplan, Laurie

JANE AUSTEN: the "Romance Queen"? Jane Austen's novels for the hoi polloi? Pride and Prejudice in the supermarket, airport, and tube station? Headline Publishing's scheme to repackage Austen's novels for the marketplace is hardly shocking. This endeavor mirrors (with a difference) Robert Chapman's 1923 publication of Austen's novels as part of Oxford University Press's canon of great English texts. If the Chapman edition served to transport Austen from the drawing room to the oak-paneled libraries of academia, then Headline's paperbacks may boost Mansfield Park or Emma to the top ...

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