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Jane Austen and the State of the Nation

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  1. Sheryl Craig
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Jane Austen’s Legacy

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 1-19

  3. Juvenilia: A Liberal Conservative

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 20-29

  4. Sense and Sensibility: Poor Law Reform

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 30-47

  5. Pride and Prejudice: The Speenhamland System

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 48-71

  6. Northanger Abbey and The Watsons: The Restriction Act

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 72-87

  7. Mansfield Park: The Condition of England

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 88-117

  8. Emma: William Pitt’s Utopia

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 118-140

  9. Persuasion: The Post-Waterloo Crash

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 141-155

  10. Sanditon: A Political Novel

    • Sheryl Craig
    Pages 156-167

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 168-183
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About this book

Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.

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"Jane Austen and the State of the Nation will be of great interest to scholars and students alike for its admirable, deep delving into the domestic economic and English political world in which Austen and her fiction were so obviously immersed." Devoney Looser, Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA

About the author

Sheryl Craig is an Austen scholar with a PhD in nineteenth-century British literature from the University of Kansas. She has published dozens of articles on Jane Austen and has lectured on Austen at regional, national, and international meetings and conferences.

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