209 Pages
by
Routledge
209 Pages
by
Routledge
209 Pages
by
Routledge
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Though Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) each wrote during the Napoleonic Wars, no full-length study has considered the importance of these pivotal events to their writing. In The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe , the author argues that both writers were unusually responsive to the economic anxieties specific to wartime, occasioned especially by the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The economy of the couplet; The bounds of necessity; Wartime pressures; Economy and improvement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Colin Winborne






