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Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

Lively and engaging account of the experience of reading Jane Austen, by leading scholar and novelist.

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Melding her experiences as reader and critic, Davidson opens new vistas onto works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Pynchon, adds richer dimension to critiques of W. G. Sebald, Alan Hollinghurst, Thomas Bernhard, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and allows for a sophisticated appreciation of popular fictions by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lionel Shriver, George Pelecanos, and Helen DeWitt. She privileges diction, syntax, point of ...

A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn reading into a highly personal and political act.

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Writers and philosophers of the eighteenth century embraced nurture, or cultural betterment, as a way to counterbalance or transcend the negative threat of nature. In the work of Locke, Swift, Defoe, Rousseau, and other giants of the British Enlightenment, Jenny Davidson recovers these writers' passionate interest in the transformative effects of education and experience. The husbandry of human nature at once embodied and threatened the enligh...

Davidson examines the attitude of such writers as Locke and Austen towards hypocrisy.