Jane Austen's possessions and dispossessions : the significance of objects / Sandie Byrne, Lecturer and Director of Studies, Oxford University, UK.

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Main Author: Byrne, Sandie, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
Romance fiction, English > History and criticism.
Physical Description:vii, 293 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Austen possessions and dispossessions
  • Sense and sensibility: giving and taking
  • Pride and prejudice: general impressions
  • Mansfield Park: everything has its price
  • Emma: the obliged and the obligated
  • Persuasion: loss and retrieval
  • Northanger Abbey: signs taken for wonders
  • The early writing and fragments
  • Juvenilia
  • Lady Susan
  • The Watsons
  • Sanditon
  • The land and the big house
  • Conclusion.