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The institution of marriage, like the novel itself, has changed greatly since Austen’s time; but as long as human beings long for this kind of mutual recognition and understanding, “Emma” will live. “Perhaps the key to Emma’s perfection, however, is that it is a comic novel, written in a mode that rarely gets much respect. It’s exquisitely ironic.” “The presiding message of the novel is that we must forgive Emma for her shortcomings just as she can and does learn to excuse the sometimes vexing people around her. There is, I believe, more wisdom in that than in many, many more portentous and ambitious novels. Emma is flawed, but ‘Emma’ is flawless." It’s a small but striking and instructive demonstration, the careful way Emma appraises the character of the various men who jockey for her attentions and those of the women around her. We could all learn from her example. "In January 1814, Jane Austen sat down to write a revolutionary novel. Emma, the book she composed over the next year, was to change the shape of what is possible in fiction." "The novel’s stylistic innovations allow it to explore not just a character’s feelings, but, comically, her deep ignorance of her own feelings. " "Those who condemn the novel by saying that its heroine is a snob miss the point. Of course she is. But Austen, with a refusal of moralism worthy of Flaubert, abandons her protagonist to her snobbery and confidently risks inciting foolish readers to think that the author must be a snob too" Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Airmont Classics (CL102) Amstelboeken (90-91) — 43 meer Collins Pocket Classics (190) Everyman's Library (24) Flipback (Classics 1) Oneworld Classics (10) Oxford English Novels (1816) Penguin English Library (EL10) Prisma Klassieken (42) Virago Modern Classics (341) The World's Classics (129) Zephyr Books (130) Is opgenomen inSense and Sensibility / Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion door Jane Austen Emma / Mansfield Park / Pride and Prejudice / Shorter Works / Sense and Sensibility / Persuasion / Northanger Abbey (7 Volume Folio Society) door Jane Austen Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility AND Catharine / Lady Susan / Sanditon / The Watsons door Jane Austen Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Lady Susan / Love and Friendship door Jane Austen Œuvres romanesques complètes I, II door Jane Austen (indirect) Is herverteld inEmmalee door Jenni James Heeft als vervolg (buiten de reeks)Heeft de bewerkingIs verkort inWordt op gereageerd inJames Fairfax door Jane Austen InspireerdeJane Fairfax door Joan Aiken Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart door Laurel Ann Nattress Emma door Rachel Portman Heeft een naslagwerk/handboekBestudeerd inHeeft als een commentaar op de tekstHeeft als studiegids voor studenten
Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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De hoofdfiguur Emma is eigenlijk niet echt sympathiek, eerder meelijwekkend.
Wel weer mooi societyportret en vooral enorme psychologische diepgang (in dit opzicht is Austen zelfs een voorloper van Dostojevski).
Vlotte dialogen afgewisseld met beschrijving en introspectie. Vormelijk toch wel minder dan P&P, met soms langdradige stukken. (