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Emma Tennant

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Since the early 1970s, when she was in her mid-thirties, Emma Tennant has been a prolific novelist and has established herself as one of the leading British exponents of "new fiction." This does not mean that she is an imitator of either the French nouveaux romanciers or the American post-modernists, although her work reveals an indebtedness to the methods and preoccupations of some of the latter. Like them, she employs parody and rewriting, is interested in the fictiveness of fiction, appropriates some science-fiction conventions, and exploits the possibilities of generic dislocation and mutation, especially the blending of realism and fantasy. Yet, although parallels can be cited and influences suggested, her work is strongly individual,...more

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Average rating: 2.55 · 1,109 ratings · 218 reviews · 58 distinct works

	Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued 2.37 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	My rating:
	An Unequal Marriage, Or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later 2.43 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Sylvia and Ted: A Novel 2.97 avg rating — 72 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Thornfield Hall: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story 2.17 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	My rating:
	A House In Corfu 3.05 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Elinor And Marianne 2.64 avg rating — 39 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued 2.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Autobiography of the Queen 2.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pemberley Revisited 2.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Burnt Diaries 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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