Jane Austen's Geographies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Clark, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351235327
• Artikelnr.: 50924992

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Standard References
Introduction - Robert Clark
Conjugal Excursions, at Home and Abroad, in Jane Austen's "Juvenilia" and
Sanditon -- John C. Leffel
Emotional and Imperial Topographies: Mapping Feeling in "Catharine, or the
Bower" -- Ana-Karina Schneider
Tales of Inheritance from West Kent - Mark Ballard
Wessex Tales: The West Country Background to Jane Austen - Pat Rogers
Travelling "Shoe-Roses": The Geography of Things in Austen's Works -- Beth
Kowaleski Wallace
"Slight and Fugitive Indications": Some locations in Sense and Sensibility
and Pride and Prejudice - Robert Clark
'That is Capital': Views of London in Pride and Prejudice - E. J. Clery
Jane Austen's Allusive Geographies: London's Streets, Squares, and Gardens
- Laurie Kapan
How Celebrity Name-Dropping Leads to a New Location for Pemberley-- Janine
Barchas
"If you could discover whether Northamptonshire is a Country of Hedgerows":
The Location of Mansfield Park - Robert Clark
Mobility in England, 1816: Austen's Emma and Repton's "View from my own
Cottage" -- Douglas Murray
Notes on Contributors
Index