Jane Austen's Geographies

ISBN-13: 9780815376873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Robert Clark

Opis

The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, of Britain’s imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class.

Recenzje

"There is much of interest here for those working in multiple disciplines, including cultural history, gender studies, and biography."- Toby R. Benis, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal　

O autorze

Robert Clark is founding editor and editor-in-chief of The Literary Encyclopedia. He has published essays and books on Defoe, The Spectator, Fielding, Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickens, Henry James, Angela Carter and Michael Oondatje. He edited Jane Austen’s Emma (Everyman 1995) and A New Casebook on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice (Macmillan 1994) and has published essays on Austen and farming, the enclosures, landscape gardens, and on British imperialism and Mansfield Park.