baby.baby's Full Review: Alistair M. Duckworth ( editor ) - Emma: New Metho...
Jane Austen's subtle style allows her to develop characters in a humorous sense. After reading so many chapters, we have an idea who will end up with who. Jane Austen knew this from the start and by developing Emma in this fashion she allows us to connect with Emma in our moments of awkwardness. We all have been in a situation where we felt things were going to turn out one way because evidence seemed to point in one direction, when in fact it turned out another way and the evidence now all comes together with its own story by this conclusion. However if I were to tell the story I'd be more inclidned to "cut to the chase" because I would not have had the patience to draw it all out and with so much humor and irony. Emma is a coming of age novel, and although deep connections are able to be made with charactesrs and the plot itself is humorous, it can get kind of dull, dry, if not boring to spend an hour reading what you already knew 30 pages ago. Jane gets my credit for having patience and mind to create this novel. It is wonderfully mastered, I just think it's too much of a drawn out romance.
The textbook, Emma : A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, by Jane Austen and Alistair M. Duckworth, available in Paperback. Published by: MPS. ...More at Textbooks.com
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