Title: Jane Austen
Description: This collection of critical essays on Jane Austen is a cross-section of modern opinion. It places her novels in a frame far wider that the provincial middle-class society she portrayed so well. Here, with a few exceptions, the novels of Jane Austen are seen as perceptive observations of the human condition, making adroit use of irony and wit as a means of moral and social judgement.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature, English Love stories, Critique et interprétation, English Romance fiction
Places: England
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Time periods: 19th century