Reading Jane Austen

Reading Jane Austenexplores Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion against their historical and cultural backdrop to show precisely how Jane Austen sets out the core themes of British morality in her novels. Austen s period was arguably the most socially and politically tumultuous in England s history, and by replacing the novels in this remarkable era, Scheuermann sharply defines Austen s view of the social contract.

Author: M. Scheuermann
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230618770

About the Author
MONA SCHEUERMANN Professor of English at Oakton Community College, USA. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Berne. She is the author of Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel; Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen; and In Praise of Poverty.