Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities

by Richard Handler and Daniel Segal

Book Overview

With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and cross-cultural analysis.

Authors Handler and Segal have approached Jane Austen's writing as a source for interpreting the cultural ideology of kinship, social rank, courtship, and marriage in Austen's England. Arguing against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847690482
• ISBN13: 9780847690480
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"