Understanding Austen

Understanding Austen

Maggie Lane

Språken
FörlagRobert Hale
ISBN9780719811494

No other author uses abstract nouns as extensively as Jane Austen. Three of her six novels even draw on such words for their titles: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. Terms like 'elegance', 'gentility' and 'propriety' seem to define her well-ordered, judgemental world. In ma