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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Austen" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Austen" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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43 minutes
Released:
Apr 21, 2021
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Jeremy Black's new book on England in the Age of Austen, just published by Indiana University Press (2021), will be a treat for anyone who loves Jane - and who does not? - as well as anyone who is interested in her contexts. Black situates Austen's work in its social, political, economic and religious cultures, showing how her youthful commitments to Jacobite politics evolved into a more mature appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Alert to the ironies of her own life and the lives of her characters, Austen wrote of the kind of world in which she wanted to live, balancing the disappointments of her own life and those of her characters with a dependency upon providence and an active commitment to preserve the best values of English society.
Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Released:
Apr 21, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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