Screen LibraryThe Jane Austen Writers' Club : inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist /
Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's m...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2016 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterisation, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work. |
| Item Description: | Originally published : 2016. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. |
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9781408866054 (paperback) : 1408866056 (paperback) 9781408866047 (hardback) 1408866048 (hardback) |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Call Number: | I561.074/S657 |