Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions : The Significance of Objects
ISBN: 9781137406316
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Fiction; Literature;

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.

Sandie Byrne is University Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford and Director of Studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, UK. She is the author of a number of articles and books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.

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