Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen

Zusatztext '... a very well researched book...' Jane Austen Society of Australia Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Barbara Britton Wenner is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Cincinnati! USA. She teaches courses on Jane Austen and has published several articles about her. Zusammenfassung How do Austen's heroines find a way to prevail in their environments? How do they make the landscape work for them? In what ways does Austen herself use landscape to convey meaning? These are among the questions Barbara Britton Wenner asks as she explores how Austen uses landscape to extend the range of reflection and activity for her female protagonists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction; The potential of death by landscape; 'Four white cows disposed at equal distances' -or- steel traps to bowers in Austen's short fiction; Heroines-in-training: the first three; Enclaves of civility amidst clamorous impertinence; The geography of persuasion; Sanditon: half topography! half romance; Some 19th-century reactions! 21st century women in the landscape! and some final remarks; Bibliography; Index.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The potential of death by landscape; 'Four white cows disposed at equal distances' -or- steel traps to bowers in Austen's short fiction; Heroines-in-training: the first three; Enclaves of civility amidst clamorous impertinence; The geography of persuasion; Sanditon: half topography, half romance; Some 19th-century reactions, 21st century women in the landscape, and some final remarks; Bibliography; Index.

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'... a very well researched book...' Jane Austen Society of Australia Chronicle

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barbara Britton Wenner, Wenner Barbara Britton
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138273610
• ISBN: 978-1-138-27361-0
• Seiten: 144
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form