Jane Austen in context / edited by Janet Todd.
Todd, Janet, 1942-
2005
PR4036 .A283 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Jane Austen in context / edited by Janet Todd.
ISBN 9780521688536 (pbk.)
0521688531 (pbk.)
9780521826440
0521826446
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Language English
Description xxx, 467 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number PR4036 .A283 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.7
Summary Includes information on Bath, Frances Burney, George Gordon Byron, Church of England, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Maria Edgeworth, Emma, Gothic novel, Lady Susan, London, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, Sir Walter Scott, Sense and Sensibility, Sir Charles Grandison, slavery, Adam Smith, Steventon, The Watsons, Mary Wollstonecraft, etc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-456) and index.
Added Author Todd, Janet, 1942-
Series Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Works. 2005.
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Chronology
PART I LIFE AND WORKS
1. Biography
2. Chronology of composition and publication
3. Language
4. Letters
5. Literary influences
6. Memoirs and biographies
7. Poetry
8. Portraits
PART II CRITICAL FORTUNES
9. Critical responses, early
10. Critical responses, 1830-1970
11. Critical responses, recent
12. Cult of Jane Austen
13. Later publishing history, with illustrations
14. Sequels
15. Translations
PART III HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
16. Agriculture
17. Book production
18. Cities
19. Consumer goods
20. Domestic architecture
21. Dress
22. Education and accomplishments
23. Food
24. Landownership
25. Landscape
26. Literary scene
27. Manners
28. Medicine, illness and disease
29. Money
30. Nationalism and empire
31. Pastimes
32. Philosophy
33. Politics
34. Professions
35. Psychology
36. Rank
37. Reading practices
38. Religion
39. Trade
40. Transport.

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