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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962258003321

Autore

Sales Roger

Titolo

Jane Austen and representations of Regency England / / Roger Sales

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-83835-2

1-134-83836-0

1-280-32038-9

0-203-42745-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

823.7

Soggetti

Literature and society - England - History - 19th century

Regency - England

England Social life and customs 19th century

England In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Paperback edition published in 1996"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

7. Sanditon: The madhouse and the greenhouseAppendix: The plot of Lovers' Vows; Afterword: Austenmania; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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