Jane Austen and children
By: David Selwyn
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781847250414
Subjects: Children in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This book ... looks at both the real and the literary children in her life--children seen and unseen (and dead); children as models of behaviour, good and bad; as objects of affection, amusement, usefulness, pity, regret, jealousy, resentment; children in the way; children as excuses; children as heirs. In the process it casts fascinating light on a hitherto largely ignored aspect of her work and the age in which she lived."--Book flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-244) and index.