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Autore: | Sales Roger |
Titolo: | Jane Austen and representations of Regency England / / Roger Sales |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature and society - England - History - 19th century |
Regency - England | |
Soggetto geografico: | England Social life and customs 19th century |
England In literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Jane Austen and representations of regency England |
ISBN: | 1-134-83836-0 |
1-280-32038-9 | |
0-203-42745-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455438403321 |
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