Jane Austen and the State of the Nation [electronic resource] /
Craig, Sheryl.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Introduction: Jane Austen's legacy -- Juvenilia: a liberal conservative -- Sense and Sensibility: poor law reform -- Pride and Prejudice: the speenhamland system -- Northanger Abbey and the Watsons: the restriction act -- Mansfield Park: the condition of England -- Emma: William Pitt's utopia -- Persuasion: the post-Waterloo crash -- Sanditon: a political novel.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
British literature.
Sociology.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.