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Brownstein, Rachel M
Why Jane Austen?, 06/2011Book Chapter
When I was in college in the 1950s, Jane Austen was the author of great works that were by the way delicious, six peaks of pink icing on the cake of English literature (or perhaps its rich center). As Deidre Lynch recalls, “R. W. Chapman’s 1923 edition of the novels for Clarendon Press was the first to bestow on a novelist the sort of editorial care previously reserved for the English canon’s dramatists and poets.”¹ Lynch (like Kathryn Sutherland after her) insists on the importance of Chapman’s being a classical scholar: his approach to the texts informed our reading of
