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Aims to reveal how the novels of Jane Austen illuminate English history in the quarter century between 1792 and 1817. The book builds a picture of Austen's life and personality and of the social and political world she inhabited in the period during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Introduction: History and Fiction I Parentage and Sisterhood: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. 2 growing up: Northanger Abbey and Juvenalia. 3 religion: Mansfield Park. 4 income: Sense and Sensibility. 5 social traffic: Emma. 6 the female economy: Lady Susan and the Waltons. 7 the epoch: Sandition.

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: 31/03/1993
      ISBN13: 9780300054491, 978-0300054491
      ISBN10: 0300054491
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Aims to reveal how the novels of Jane Austen illuminate English history in the quarter century between 1792 and 1817. The book builds a picture of Austen's life and personality and of the social and political world she inhabited in the period during and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: History and Fiction I Parentage and Sisterhood: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. 2 growing up: Northanger Abbey and Juvenalia. 3 religion: Mansfield Park. 4 income: Sense and Sensibility. 5 social traffic: Emma. 6 the female economy: Lady Susan and the Waltons. 7 the epoch: Sandition.

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