Jane Austen's Geographies
When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as &quote;three or four families in a country village&quote;, rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain's imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-23532-7
- EAN: 9781351235327
- Produktnummer: 25748416
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'019 KB
- Abbildungen: 21 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Robert Clark is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Literary Encyclopedia. He has published essays and books on Defoe, The Spectator, Fielding, Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickens, Henry James, Angela Carter and Michael Oondatje. He edited Jane Austen's Emma (Everyman 1995) and A New Casebook on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice (Macmillan 1994) and has published essays on Austen and farming, the enclosures, landscape gardens, and on British imperialism and Mansfield Park.
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