UID:
almafu_9959236754202883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-83835-2
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1-134-83836-0
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1-280-32038-9
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0-203-42745-9
Content:
In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Reg
Note:
"Paperback edition published in 1996"--T.p. verso.
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Cover; Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Textual note; Introduction; Part I. The Regency reproduced; 1. Rewriting the Regency; Part II. The Regency rediscovered; 2. The letters: Keeping and losing her countenance; 3. The Prince, the dandy and the Crisis; Part III. The political condition of Regency England; 4. Mansfield Park: The Regency Crisis and the theatre; Part IV. The sick society: Leisure and invalidism in the later writings; 5. Emma: The village and the watering place; 6. Persuasion: The war and the peace
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7. Sanditon: The madhouse and the greenhouseAppendix: The plot of Lovers' Vows; Afterword: Austenmania; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-15153-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-10921-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203427453
