Prospect and refuge in the landscape of Jane Austen
By: Barbara Britton Wenner.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Settings; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters -- Heroines; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Knowledge -- Geography; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Personal space in literature; Landscape in literature; Heroines in literature; Setting (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The potential of death by landscape; title: "Four white cows disposed at equal distances," or steel traps to bowers in Austen's short fiction; title: Heroines-in-training : the first three; title: Enclaves of civility amidst clamorous impertinence; title: The geography of Persuasion; title: Sanditon : half topography, half romance; title: Some nineteenth-century reactions, twenty-first century women; title: In the landscape, and some final remarks.