The Improvement of the Estate
Subtitle: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 1, 1972
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801812699
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature and society; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Love stories, English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Austen, Jane; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Political and social views; England; 19th century; History; History and criticism; Women and literature
First sentence: tingency, the reduced self may resort to subversive stratagems to ensure survival. Persuasion, particularly, apprehends a world in which traditional grounds of selfhood no longer obtain; but the apprehension in lesser degree attaches to all the novels.