ENGL 304: Jane Austen

This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Entries include agriculture, cities, dress, manners, money, religion, and more.

This reference book is an accurate, comprehensive, and detailed guide to Austen's life and career. A chronology outlines the principal events in her life and places her within larger literary and historical contexts. The several hundred alphabetically arranged entries that follow identify characters and family members, discuss works and themes, and synthesize the large body of criticism that has grown around her works.

This is a tour through 18th-century England in the footsteps of Jane Austen. The houses, gardens and landscapes she wove into her novels are identified and depicted in photographs.

This book analyzes Austen's heroines' relationships to body, mind, spirit, environment, and society. It reveals how, despite a restrictive patriarchal culture, these women achieve greatness. In clear, lively prose, Kathleen Anderson shares original theoretical insights from twenty years of studying Austen, and illuminates the novels as guidebooks on how to become an Austenian heroine in one's everyday life.

This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Entries include agriculture, cities, dress, manners, money, religion, and more.

This Cambridge Companion covers Austen's works in their historical context, with biographical information and suggestions for further reading. Major scholars address Austen's six novels, the letters and other works. It also includes essays on gender, sociability, economics, and screen adaptations.

Essays in this Routledge Companion address Austen's writings, the historical context in which she wrote, critical approaches to Austen's works, and the communities her books have inspired.

This anthology gathers together various texts by and about women, ranging from `conduct' manuals to pamphlets on prostitution, from medical texts to critical definitions of women's writing, from anti-female satires to appeals for female equality.