Jane Austen & the War of Ideas

by Marilyn Butler

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It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Austen was not isolated from reading novels, and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previousgeneration, the Jacobin novel of William Godwin, the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth--all conveyed their own kind of ideological meaning...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198120680

ISBN13:9780198120681

Release Date:January 1975

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:310 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

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Administration & Medicine Economics Administration & Policy English Literature Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Public Health

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