"Impressive and often dazzling."-Studies in Romanticism
"Insightful, learned, intense, and challenging, William Galperin's The Historical Austen offers a new turn in a critical conversation that appeared to have reached its limits. More than a new reading of Austen, however, Galperin also brings historicist criticism to a new level."-Eighteenth-Century Life
"Important, intelligent, engaged, and engaging. . . . The best study of Austen published during the past twenty years."-Clio
"Startlingly original, scrupulously researched, and formidably smart, The Historical Austen is the most important book on Jane Austen's works to appear in the last fifteen years."-Deidre Lynch, Indiana University
"A book that will revolutionize Jane Austen studies."-Adela Pinch, University of Michigan
"In this engrossing revisionary experiment, what gets contextualized with immense and unprecedented subtlety is no less than the evolving and period-bound operation of narrative technique itself."-Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa"Consistently provocative and frequently excellent."-TLS
"In a style that displays a gift for startling turns of phrase and wit, Galperin offers a learned, vigorous, innovative reconsideration of Austen and her critics. . . . Galperin is equally informative about narrative techniques that work or fail and on how Austen represents early capitalism. . . . Informed by feminist criticism, the book could also serve as an advanced primer on the history and theory of representation, especially its picturesque and realist variants. . . . Essential."-Choice
"A major reexamination of both Austen's oeuvre and the history of the novel."-Albion
"A signal work for current Romantic studies and for this historical moment."-Romantic Circles Reviews
"Galperin presents an Austen far less consistently conservative or progressive, far more self-reflexive, and infinitely more complicated than the Austen of much recent scholarship. His book is far richer than any brief review can suggest. . . . This book is so extraordinary. Galperin offers a compellingly revisionist view of Austen's works."-JASNA Newsletter
"An exemplary instance of one ideal of literary scholarship, the reflexive evaluation of literary forms in and as history."-Studies in English Literature
