![]() ![]() The Watsons creates superbly the life of a small-town family at the edges of gentility, while Sanditon portrays a small seaside town being developed into a tourist resort-a new trend in Austen’s day. Notable as well is the four texts’ handling of place and setting, which become especially prominent in The Watsons and Sanditon. In doing so, these texts sometimes draw attention to how the romance plot is inflected by the financial condition in which young marriageable women can find themselves. The unfinished works also problematize the romance plot salient in the published novels by presenting this in a nebulous or incipient state that underlines its artificiality. All of them feature alterations that show Jane Austen refining her language and demonstrating the orientation of her thinking. Since very little in manuscript form survives from the six famous novels, these four manuscript texts offer insight into the novelist in the process of creation. These unfinished texts are fascinating for several reasons. They have never received nearly as much attention as the six novels that appeared between 18, and this is the first study to examine them in detail, and in relation to each other. None was published till well after her death. ![]() ![]() Unfinished Austen is a scholarly monograph which examines four texts left incomplete by Jane Austen: Catharine, or the Bower (1792–-3), Lady Susan (1795?), The Watsons (1803–-4?) and Sanditon (1817). ![]()
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