Austen possessions and dispossessions --;Sense and Sensibility: giving and taking --;Pride and Prejudice: general impressions --;Mansfield Park: benevolence and gratitude --;Emma: the obliged and the obligated --;Persuasion: loss and retrieval --;Northanger Abbey: signs taken for wonders --;The early writing and fragments --;The land and the big house.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Characters.
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR4036
Book number
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S263
9999
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sandie Byrne, Lecturer and Director of Studies, Oxford University, UK.