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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... Theatre , Bath , engraving by H. S. Storer , 1818. Opened in 1805 , it replaced the smaller Orchard Street theatre . 7 J. P. Kemble , Charles Kemble and Mrs Siddons in the trial scene in Shakespeare's Henry VIII , from a painting by ...
... Theatre , Bath , engraving by H. S. Storer , 1818. Opened in 1805 , it replaced the smaller Orchard Street theatre . 7 J. P. Kemble , Charles Kemble and Mrs Siddons in the trial scene in Shakespeare's Henry VIII , from a painting by ...
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... Theatre , 1781 . 117 Copy in Jane Austen's hand of Dibdin's " The Soldier's Adieu ' . ( Jane Austen Memorial Trust ) 130 Title page to Thomas Wilson's An Analysis of Country Dancing ( 1808 ) . 150 Page of directions from Thomas Wilson's ...
... Theatre , 1781 . 117 Copy in Jane Austen's hand of Dibdin's " The Soldier's Adieu ' . ( Jane Austen Memorial Trust ) 130 Title page to Thomas Wilson's An Analysis of Country Dancing ( 1808 ) . 150 Page of directions from Thomas Wilson's ...
Pàgina xiv
... theatres , and their daughters sang and played the harp or the pianoforte ; their portraits were painted by Lawrence ... theatre were by no means beyond the reach of comparatively modest pockets ; and if a family's own stock of books was ...
... theatres , and their daughters sang and played the harp or the pianoforte ; their portraits were painted by Lawrence ... theatre were by no means beyond the reach of comparatively modest pockets ; and if a family's own stock of books was ...
Pàgina xxi
... theatre and ones performed at Steventon rectory - have a chapter to themselves ; and inevitably consid- erable space is given to the theatricals in Mansfield Park ( though scenes at the theatre in Northanger Abbey also merit examination ) ...
... theatre and ones performed at Steventon rectory - have a chapter to themselves ; and inevitably consid- erable space is given to the theatricals in Mansfield Park ( though scenes at the theatre in Northanger Abbey also merit examination ) ...
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