Reading Jane Austen

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Reading Jane Austenexplores Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion against their historical and cultural backdrop to show precisely how Jane Austen sets out the core themes of British morality in her novels. Austen s period was arguably the most socially and politically tumultuous in England s history, and by replacing the novels in this remarkable era, Scheuermann sharply defines Austen s view of the social contract.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction: "Truths Universally Acknowledged"
• Part I A Moral Tapestry: Mansfield Park
• "The Real and Consistent Patron of the Selected Child"
• "So Long as it be a German Playâ€
• â€oeIf tenderness could ever be supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its placeâ€
• Part II Social Grids: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion â€oeShe had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance . . . seen any thing that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjustâ€"any thing that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habitsâ€
• â€oeShe only demands from each of you either one thing very clever . . . or two things moderately cleverâ€"or three things very dull indeedâ€
• â€oeThe advantage of maturity of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune between themâ€Â
• Part III Politics and History
• The World of Jane Austen