Description: Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an analysis of her novels. He shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of "society" to a more questioning one, and considers the problems of authority, power, and the position of women, as well as the relationship between ethics, language and behavior.
Brief description: TONY TANNER was sometime Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK, and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Review Quotes: This is the sort of intelligent study of a single author's oeuvre that has become uncommon in recent criticism. It is genuinely introductory as well as genuinely searching. -- David Bromwich "New Republic"