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Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen
By Barbara Britton Wenner
Copyright 2006
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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How do Austen's heroines find a way to prevail in their environments? How do they make the landscape work for them? In what ways does Austen herself use landscape to convey meaning? These are among the questions Barbara Britton Wenner asks as she explores how Austen uses landscape to extend the range of reflection and activity for her female protagonists. Women, Wenner argues, create private... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The potential of death by landscape; 'Four white cows disposed at equal distances' -or- steel traps to bowers in Austen's short fiction; Heroines-in-training: the first three; Enclaves of civility amidst clamorous impertinence; The geography of persuasion; Sanditon: half topography, half romance; Some 19th-century reactions, 21st century women in the landscape, and some final remarks; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Barbara Britton Wenner is an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Cincinnati, USA. She teaches courses on Jane Austen and has published several articles about her.
'... a very well researched book...' Jane Austen Society of Australia Chronicle
