A companion to Jane Austen

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. * Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship * Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies * Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries