id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_m4qqwahghja7fcwn4uudrnmdti William Galperin The Uses and Abuses of Austen's "Absolute Historical Pictures" 2003 8 .pdf application/pdf 3777 165 55 Standard Novels, the Literary Gazette recommended Austen's fictions to the "rising Reading Austen is not simply educative on this view; it is, in its new capacity as popular walks of life," Austen, as Scott saw her, was simply urging readers to read about themselves hypothetical reader of Austen necessarily needs to feel good about herself and her milieu. Whatley also differs from Scott in implying that Austen's readership was, as she construed Where Scott's Austen is largely on the reader's side, derived little from Austen's novels beyond a generalized contempt—and I would further seeing Mansfield Park as being typical of Austen's writing generally, is that the education that Austen transmits in Whatley's analysis, turns out to be no education at all. of Austen's fiction into actual experience is for Lewes, no less than for Kipling's veterans, conferred on the nineteenth-century, or again popular, reader of Austen a status that was ./cache/work_m4qqwahghja7fcwn4uudrnmdti.pdf ./txt/work_m4qqwahghja7fcwn4uudrnmdti.txt