{"product_id":"9781782047568","title":"Jane Austen: Two Centuries of Criticism","description":"Among the most important English novelists, Jane Austen is unusual because she is esteemed not only by academics but by the reading public. Her novels continue to sell well, and films adapted from herworks enjoy strong box-office success. The trajectory of Austen criticism is intriguing, especially when one compares it to that of other nineteenth-century English writers. At least partly because she was a woman in the early nineteenth century, she was long neglected by critics, hardly considered a major figure in English literature until well into the twentieth century, a hundred years after her death. Yet consequently she did not suffer from the reaction against Victorianism that did so much to hurt the reputation of Dickens, Tennyson, Arnold, and others. How she rose to prominence amongacademic critics - and has retained her position through the constant shifting of academic and critical trends - is a story worth telling, as it suggests not only something about Austen's artistry butalso about how changes in critical perspective can radically alter a writer's reputation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173801738480,"sku":"9781782047568","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782047568_p0.jpg?v=1763718183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782047568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}