Emma

Description:

Emma is meant to charm us and does charm us. Austen is not writing a tragedy of the will, like Paradise Lost, but a great comedy of the will, and her heroine must incarnate the full potential of the will, however, misused for a time. Having rather too much her own way is certainly one of Emma's Powers, and she does have a disposition to think a little too well of herself. When Austen says that these were the real evils indeed of Emma's situation, we read evils as lightly as the author will let us, which is lightly enough. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo's White Noise.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Departments & Libraries.