Peter Knox-Shaw

Jane Austen and the Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important contribution to the study of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521759977
• ISBN-10: 0521759978
• Artikelnr.: 26571733

Autorenporträt

Peter Knox-Shaw is a Research Associate at the University of Cape Town.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Eighteenth-Century Legacy: 1. Auspices
2. Pride and Prejudice, a politics of the picturesque
3. Northanger Abbey and the liberal historians
4. Sense and Sensibility and the philosophers
Part II. Engaging with the New Age: 5. Diffraction
6. Mansfield Park: charting the religious revival
7. Emma, and the flaws of sovereignty
8. Persuasion: light on an old genre
9. Sanditon and speculation
Bibliography.