This book places the major novels of Jane Austen within the moral and social contexts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England in a clear and accessible language. INDICE: - Introduction: 'Truths Universally Acknowledged' - PART I: A MORAL TAPESTRY: MANSFIELD PARK - 'The Real and Consistent Patron of the Selected Child' - 'So Long as it be a German Play' - 'If tenderness could ever be supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place' - PART II: SOCIALGRIDS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, EMMA AND PERSUASION - 'She had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance...seen any thing that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust - any thing that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits' - 'She only demands from each of you either one thing very clever... or two things moderately clever - or three things very dull indeed' - 'The advantage ofmaturity of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune betweenthem' - PART III: POLITICS AND HISTORY - The World of Jane Austen
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61877-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés