Jane Austen's possessions and dispossessions : the significance of objects

Summary: Who owns, who buys, who gives, who mentions, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing. The trimming on a gown or the style of a carriage is made to place a character socially. Covetousness and meanness are clearly damned, but objects are used for more subtle forms of characterization; an attitude towards a meal, or a gift, or a tree is made more effective than a dozen speeches. If possessions are important, so is dispossession, which Austen suffered in her own life and whose effects she explores in the lives of her characters. "Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions" looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia.

Record details

ISBN: 1349487929
ISBN: 9781349487929
ISBN: 1137406313
ISBN: 9781137406316
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 293 pages)
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Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	English.
Ownership and Custodial History:	Libro electrónico Palgrave Connect Colección 2014.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.