England in the Age of Austen /

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"Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, Black p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Homes and haunts > England.
Manners and customs.
Intellectual life.
Homes.
England.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
England > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The rise of the novel
  • Rural England : the epicenter of Austen's world
  • Agriculture and agricultural change
  • Families, women, and men
  • Faith and the Church
  • Culture, arts, and the enlightenment
  • London : the capital of empire
  • Bath : the capital of leisure and the dubious pleasures of the seaside
  • Transport and industry
  • A state at war
  • The romantic landscape
  • Conclusions.

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