Jane Austen's England, Roy and Lesley Adkins
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Jane Austen's England, Roy and Lesley Adkins
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-398) and index
Illustrations
illustrationsplatesmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Jane Austen's England
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
818953777
Responsibility statement
Roy and Lesley Adkins
Summary
Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most beloved of novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth and insight with which she chronicles the wayward hearts of her unforgettable characters. Her work also offers a vivid depiction of rural life in late Georgian and Regency England, its country balls and ivy-covered vicarages, its social hierarchies and its anxieties about property and income. Yet the milieu Austen depicted is only one aspect of her era. For 29 of her 41 years the country was embroiled in war. Dramatic changes in industry and agriculture were transforming the country's physical and social landscape. This book offers a new view of her world in a wide-ranging and detailed social history of English life in the early nineteenth century, from weddings to childbearing, from education to fashion, from labor to leisure and finally to the rituals of death.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
Wedding bells -- Breeding -- Toddler to teenager -- Home and hearth -- Fashions and filth -- Sermons and superstitions -- Wealth and work -- Leisure and pleasure -- On the move -- Dark deeds -- Medicine men -- Last words
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- Austen, Jane, (1775-1817)
- Angleterre (GB) -- Dans la littérature
- Angleterre (GB) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
- Angleterre (GB) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- Angleterre -- Dans la littérature
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle
- England -- In literature
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
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- Austen, Jane, (1775-1817)
- Angleterre (GB) -- Dans la littérature
- Angleterre (GB) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
- Angleterre (GB) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- Angleterre -- Dans la littérature
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle
- England -- In literature
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
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