Jane Austen and the State (RLE Jane Austen)

by Mary Evans

Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners.

Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and argues that far from endorsing established and conservative views Jane Austen advances a radical critique of the morality of bourgeois capitalism and demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415672538
• ISBN13: 9780415672535
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"