Jane Austens Geographies

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135123532X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen’s Geographies written by Robert Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", 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 consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family’s Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen’s texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention.

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367890339
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen's Geographies written by Robert Clark and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austen's Novels ... written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel M. Brownstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231153902
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Jane Austen? written by Rachel M. Brownstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel M. Brownstein considers Jane Austen as heroine, moralist, satirist, romantic, woman, and author, along with the changing notions of these categories over time and texts. She finds echoes of many of Austen's insights and techniques in contemporary Jane-o-mania, a commercially driven, erotically charged popular vogue that aims to preserve and liberate, correct and collaborate with old Jane.

Author : Lynn M. Houston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440842558
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Geography written by Lynn M. Houston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written. Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings is an authoritative guide for students, teachers, and avid readers who seek to understand the importance of setting in interpreting works of literature, including poetry. By examining how authors and poets shaped their literary landscapes in such works as The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers will discover historical, political, and cultural context hidden within the words of their favorite reads. The alphabetically arranged entries provide easy access to analysis of some of the most well-known and frequently assigned pieces of literature and poetry. Entries begin with a brief introduction to the featured piece of literature and then answer the questions: "How is literary landscape used to shape the story?"; "How is the literary landscape imbued with the geographical, political, cultural, and historical context of the author's contemporary world, whether purposeful or not?" Pop-up boxes provide quotes about literary landscapes throughout the book, and an appendix takes a brief look at the places writers congregated and that inspired them. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to mapping, physical and cultural geography, ecocriticism, and the role of nature in literature rounds out the work.

Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143914480X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew written by Daniel Pool and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

Author : Catherine Delafield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119779367
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Author: Jane Austen written by Catherine Delafield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh approach to building the life of Jane Austen through her letters, demonstrating that a well-known life can be reframed by being grounded in evidence of that life The Life of the Author: Jane Austen takes readers on a literary-biographical journey through Austen's life in letters. Using a unique non-linear approach, author Catherine Delafield explores three frames for Austen's literary life—family, correspondents, and fiction—to suggest new pathways for the interpretation of life writing about one of the most popular and influential English novelists of all time. Delafield addresses multiple aspects of Austen's epistolary practice and the ways in which her letters, juvenile writings, and unpublished novels have been overlaid on both biography and fiction. Throughout the text, special attention is paid to the changing view of women’s correspondence as personal record and to Cassandra Austen's role as editor of her sister’s surviving letters. The book opens with selected readings from Austen's letters and a review of the family treatment of the life. Subsequent chapters discuss the female circle of correspondents in both extant and missing letters, the letter content and structure of Austen's novels, the use of letters as representations of places and spaces based on Austen's own lived experience of epistolary communication, and more. Discusses how the letters, correspondents, and novels supplement Jane Austen’s fiction and substantiate her life Highlights Austen's use of the letter as a conversation on paper, rather than as an autobiographical tool Explores the letters within Austen's fictional writing as well as recipes, accounts, and needlework with links to the letters Features a select chronology using letters as landmarks, tables representing surviving letters by correspondent, and family trees tracing names and relationships The Life of the Author: Jane Austen is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the novel, women's writing, British writing, and life writing, as well as for general readers with interest in gaining new perspectives on Austen's chronological life and literary output.

Author : Barbara Britton Wenner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351908235
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen written by Barbara Britton Wenner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Austen's heroines find a way to prevail in their environments? How do they make the landscape work for them? In what ways does Austen herself use landscape to convey meaning? These are among the questions Barbara Britton Wenner asks as she explores how Austen uses landscape to extend the range of reflection and activity for her female protagonists. Women, Wenner argues, create private spaces within the landscape that offer them the power of knowledge gained through silent and invisible observation. She traces the construction of these hidden refuges in Austen's six major novels, as well as in her juvenilia and her final, unfinished novel, Sanditon. Her book will be an important resource for Austen specialists and for those interested generally in the importance of landscape in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's fiction writing.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PERSUASION written by Jane Austen and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasion is a novel written by a famous British writer Jane Austen. It is a story about the life of Anne Elliot, a middle daughter of baronet Sir Walter, a spender and bluffer. Due to these features of his character, he found himself in a difficult financial position. He has to rent a family estate Kellynch Hall in order to pay his debts. Meanwhile, his most smart and considerate daughter Anne goes to Uppercross to look after a sick sister. In the days of her youth she was mutually in love with Frederick Wentworth, but because of a fear of a poor marriage, “reasons of conscience” and on the insistence of a “family friend” Lady Russel Anne stopped her relationship with him. But now after eight years, some incredible coincidence happens. The family that rents Kellynch Hall is related to Frederick Wentworth. Is the old-time love still alive in the hearts of Anne and Frederick?

Author : Patrick Gordon Wilson
Publisher : Jane Austen Society of Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780958115803
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where's Where in Jane Austen written by Patrick Gordon Wilson and published by Jane Austen Society of Australia. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: