Jane Austen's geographies / edited by Robert Clark.
| Call Number | 809.93321732 J333 |
| Title | Jane Austen's geographies / edited by Robert Clark. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource |
| Series | Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature |
| Contents | chapter 1 Introduction / chapter 2 Conjugal Excursions, at Home and Abroad, in Jane Austen’s “Juvenilia” and Sanditon (1817) / chapter 3 Emotional and Imperial Topographies -- Mapping Feeling in “Catharine, or the Bower” / chapter 4 Tales of Inheritance from West Kent 1 / chapter 5 Wessex Tales -- The West Country Background to Jane Austen / chapter 6 Traveling Shoe Roses -- The Geography of Things in Austen’s Works / chapter 7 “Slight and Fugitive Indications” -- Some Locations in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice / chapter 8 ‘That Is Capital’ -- Views of London in Pride and Prejudice / chapter 9 Jane Austen’s Allusive Geographies -- London’s Streets, Squares, and Gardens / chapter 10 How Celebrity Name-Dropping Leads to a New Location for Pemberley 1 / chapter 11 “If You Could Discover Whether Northamptonshire Is a Country of Hedgerows” -- The Location of Mansfield Park / chapter 12 Mobility in England, 1816 -- Austen’s Emma and Repton’s “View from My Own Cottage” / |
| Summary | "When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain's imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family's Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen's texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention. "--Provided by publisher. |
| Added Author | Clark, Robert, editor. |
| Subject | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation. Cities and towns in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Geographical perception in literature. |
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| Summary | "When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain's imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family's Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen's texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention. "--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents | chapter 1 Introduction / chapter 2 Conjugal Excursions, at Home and Abroad, in Jane Austen’s “Juvenilia” and Sanditon (1817) / chapter 3 Emotional and Imperial Topographies -- Mapping Feeling in “Catharine, or the Bower” / chapter 4 Tales of Inheritance from West Kent 1 / chapter 5 Wessex Tales -- The West Country Background to Jane Austen / chapter 6 Traveling Shoe Roses -- The Geography of Things in Austen’s Works / chapter 7 “Slight and Fugitive Indications” -- Some Locations in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice / chapter 8 ‘That Is Capital’ -- Views of London in Pride and Prejudice / chapter 9 Jane Austen’s Allusive Geographies -- London’s Streets, Squares, and Gardens / chapter 10 How Celebrity Name-Dropping Leads to a New Location for Pemberley 1 / chapter 11 “If You Could Discover Whether Northamptonshire Is a Country of Hedgerows” -- The Location of Mansfield Park / chapter 12 Mobility in England, 1816 -- Austen’s Emma and Repton’s “View from My Own Cottage” / |
| Subject | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 Criticism and interpretation. Cities and towns in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Geographical perception in literature. |
| Multimedia |