Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20071222
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Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook. Fiona Stafford, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]60.00. ix + 319 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-517530-1. This collection of fourteen essays, introduced by the editor, originated with OUP New York. In that introduction Miss Stafford refers to the debates that have raged round Jane Austen's novels since their publication. This collection gives readers insights into past and current thought about one of Jane Austen's most famous novels. It begins, appropriately, with the author's own collection of reactions to her novel and then moves on to an ...

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