Jane Austen and the State of the Nation

Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.

Author: Sheryl Craig, Eckersley
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/11/2015
Pages: 183
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137544544

About the Author
Sheryl Craig is an Austen scholar with a PhD in nineteenth-century British literature from the University of Kansas. She has published dozens of articles on Jane Austen and has lectured on Austen at regional, national, and international meetings and conferences.