1st Edition

The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

By Colin Winborn Copyright 2004
209 Pages
by Routledge

209 Pages
by Routledge

209 Pages
by Routledge

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