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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154574203321

Autore

Wenner Barbara Britton <1946-, >

Titolo

Prospect and refuge in the landscape of Jane Austen / / Barbara Britton Wenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90823-5

1-138-27361-9

1-315-24583-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Personal space in literature

Landscapes in literature

Heroines in literature

Setting (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Ashgate.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. An introduction to the landscape of Jane Austen -- 2. The potential of death by landscape -- 3. "Four white cows disposed at equal distances" --or-- Steel traps to bowers in Austen's short fiction -- 4. Heroines-in-training : the first three -- 5. Enclaves of civility amidst clamorous impertinence -- 6. The geography of Persuasion -- 7. Sanditon : half topography, half romance -- 8. Some nineteenth-century reactions, twenty-first century women in the landscape and final remarks.