Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith
About this ebook
light of the ten major works of fiction by Charlotte Smith. It proposes that Smith
had a deep and lasting impact on Austen, but this is not an influence study. Instead,
it argues for the possibility that two authors who never met could between them
write something into being, both responding to and creating a novelistic zeitgeist.
This, the book argues, can be called co-writing. This book will appeal to students
and scholars of the novel, of women’s writing, and of Smith and Austen specifically.
About the author
Professor Jacqueline M. Labbe is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at De
Montfort University, UK. She has also worked at the University of Sheffield and
the University of Warwick, UK. She has published extensively on the poetry and
fiction of the Romantic period, including the first full-length study of Smith and
Wordsworth.
