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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Homes and haunts > England.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817
1700-1799
Homes
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
England > Social life and customs > 18th century.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 18e siècle.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
England
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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