Sanditon

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Jane Austen Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford)

Sanditon

Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, St Anne's College, Oxford)

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Worlds Classics
06 August 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year'In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explores the mysterious and startling transformations that a stay by the sea can work on individuals and relationships. Sanditon is a fictitious place on England's south coast and the obsession of local landowner Mr Thomas Parker. He means to transform this humble fishing village into a fashionable health resort to rival its famous neighbours of Brighton and Eastbourne. In this, her final, unfinished work, the writer sets aside her familiar subject matter, the country village with its settled community, for the transient and eccentric assortment of people who drift to the new resort, the town built upon sand.

If the ground beneath her characters' feet appears less secure, Austen's own vision is opening out.

Light and funny, Sanditon is her most experimental and poignant work.

By: Jane Austen
Edited by: Kathryn Sutherland (Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism St Anne's College Oxford)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9780198840831
ISBN 10: 0198840837
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 06 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Jane Austen Sanditon Explanatory Notes

Kathryn Sutherland is the editor of Austen-Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections and Jane Austen's Teenage Writings for the Oxford World's Classics. She has created a digitial edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts (2012), the print edition published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).

Reviews for Sanditon

A terrific introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of English Literature at St Anne's College, goes further in explaining the rage of the seaside during Austen's life time, but also how it allows Austen here to conjure up a cast of colourful, uncertain characters as tangy as vinegary fish and chips. * Richard Lofthouse, Quad * Light and funny, it's Austen's most experimental and poignant work. * Angela Wintle, Sussex Life *