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Emma by Jane Austen: Invention of the Modern Novel
Thursday September 12 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm BST
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Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about one of the greatest ever novels.
Jane Austen is often seen as a writer of romantic comedies and social manners. But she was also a great innovator. Emma is her most important novel and shows her at her most experimental. Her development of narrative technique was exceptional and wouldn’t be equalled until later writers like Flaubert, Dickens, James, and Proust. This salon continues from the previous instalment where we discussed the birth of Romanticism. Now we get the emergence of the modern novel.
Recommended readings:
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Misreading Ulysses by Sally Rooney
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