Jane Austen : the parson's daughter

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    • Collins, Irene

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Jane Austen : the parson's daughter

Irene Collins

Hambledon, 1998

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注記

Bibliography: p. 261-268

Includes index

Publisher varies: Hambledon continuum

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9781852851729

内容説明

Jane Austen was a clergyman's daughter, related to other clergy, born and brought up in a parsonage. Many of her attributes, expressed in her novels, reflect this directly orr indirectly. Her father's reasoned and practical approach to religion, along with the range of books available to her in his library, shaped the moral outlook behind her criticism of individuals and of society. Her attitude to the gentry is subtly ambivalent. Accepted as a clergyman's daughter in local society, Jane Austen sometimes mirrors their prejudices, for example in her characterization of the haughty aristocrat Lady Catherine de Bourgh in "Pride and Prejudice". At the same time, her own position in gentry society gave her personal experience of the slights and snobberies inherent in the subtle class distinctions of the time. Over time she became more sensitive about the position of women without money of their own, and wrote in "Emma" of the lowered status of a parson's daughter who has died. Jane Austen's life coincided with her country's war against Revolutionary France. This text shows how she drew upon an extensive knowledge of wartime conditions not only in "Pride and Prejudice" with its militia regiment, and in "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion" with their sailors, but also in "Sense and Sensibility", "Northanger Abbey" and even "Emma".
巻冊次

: [pbk.] ISBN 9781852855628

内容説明

Jane Austen was a clergyman's daughter. Many of her attitudes, expressed in her novels, reflect this directly or indirectly. Her father's reasoned and practical approach to religion, along with the range of books available to her in his library, shaped the essentially moral outlook behind her entertaining, but devastating, criticism of individuals and of society. Her attitude to the gentry is subtly ambivalent. Accepted as a clergyman's daughter in local society, Jane Austen sometimes mirrors their prejudices, seen for instance in her characterisation of the haughty aristocrat Lady Catherine de Bourgh in "Pride and Prejudice". At the same time, her own marginal position in gentry society gave her personal experience of the slights and snobberies inherent in the subtle class distinctions of the time. "Jane Austen: The Parson's Daughter" shows how Jane Austen in fact drew on an extensive knowledge of wartime conditions in her books.

目次

  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Godly Heritage
  • 2 Upbringing
  • 3 School
  • 4 Reason and Godliness
  • 5 Reading and Learning
  • 6 Dramatic Times
  • 7 Stories
  • 8 Dancing
  • 9 War
  • 10 Love and Tragedy
  • 11 Publishing
  • 12 Marriage and Money
  • 13 Classical Scenes and Gothic Novels
  • 14 Dread and Terrible Times
  • 15 Leaving Steventon
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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