Jane Austen and the State of the Nation - Hardcover

by Sheryl Craig (Author), Eckersley (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.