Jane Austen and LeisureBloomsbury Publishing, 1 de jul. 1998 - 376 pàgines Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character. |
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Pàgina xi
... seen in the pulpit or on the parade ground , and , like all her other characters , they are rarely called upon to exert themselves beyond the limited demands of a country dance . This picture is misleading in two ways . First , though ...
... seen in the pulpit or on the parade ground , and , like all her other characters , they are rarely called upon to exert themselves beyond the limited demands of a country dance . This picture is misleading in two ways . First , though ...
Pàgina xix
... seen most clearly in Mansfield Park , where patterns of idleness and activity are keenly scrutinised . The management of Sir Thomas's affairs requires him to go out to Antigua , leaving a vacuum at Mansfield that Tom Bertram fails to ...
... seen most clearly in Mansfield Park , where patterns of idleness and activity are keenly scrutinised . The management of Sir Thomas's affairs requires him to go out to Antigua , leaving a vacuum at Mansfield that Tom Bertram fails to ...
Pàgina xx
... seen , they reveal details of characters and situations . The purpose of this book is to examine how various activities are used in the novels and , by investigating Jane Austen's own experience of them - or that of her family - to see ...
... seen , they reveal details of characters and situations . The purpose of this book is to examine how various activities are used in the novels and , by investigating Jane Austen's own experience of them - or that of her family - to see ...
Pàgina 13
... seen Eleanor and Henry themselves driving in a phaeton in the opposite direction , so she is distraught to see them from his carriage walking down the street to keep their appointment with her for their planned walk— the more so as he ...
... seen Eleanor and Henry themselves driving in a phaeton in the opposite direction , so she is distraught to see them from his carriage walking down the street to keep their appointment with her for their planned walk— the more so as he ...
Pàgina 16
... seen as much more than an essen- tially comic figure . Mrs Weston , though in many ways exemplary , has allowed Emma too free a rein over the exercise of her own wishes . And even Lady Russell , who is the only person apart from Captain ...
... seen as much more than an essen- tially comic figure . Mrs Weston , though in many ways exemplary , has allowed Emma too free a rein over the exercise of her own wishes . And even Lady Russell , who is the only person apart from Captain ...
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