Jane Austen and LeisureBloomsbury Academic, 1999 - 352 pàgines "The smooth working of society depended on a round of visits, dinners and evening parties, sometimes enlivened by cards, music, dancing or amateur theatricals; and there were also regular outings to balls and assemblies, plays and concerts. Bath and other spas were active centres of entertainment of all kinds; and the seaside resort was steadily growing in importance. Jane Austen experienced all these herself and put them to good use in her novels; but she also registered the act that quiet, solitary pursuits such as reading, walking or the inevitable needlework might be more to the taste of a Fanny Price or an Anne Elliot. Male characters employ their leisure in a number of sports, often glimpsed offstage - shooting, hunting, racing, gaming."--BOOK JACKET. "Jane Austen and Leisure identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... less worthy females were to come in the evening , with Miss Bates , Miss Fairfax , and Miss Smith'.3 As the fashionable dinner hour grew later , it was less necessary to serve elaborate suppers , particularly to guests who had dined ...
... less worthy females were to come in the evening , with Miss Bates , Miss Fairfax , and Miss Smith'.3 As the fashionable dinner hour grew later , it was less necessary to serve elaborate suppers , particularly to guests who had dined ...
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... less real danger , because the Wind meeting with nothing to oppose or confine it around our House , simply rages & passes on . ' 117 In 1729 a freak storm had caused severe damage to the village ( and indeed to other parts of Sussex ) ...
... less real danger , because the Wind meeting with nothing to oppose or confine it around our House , simply rages & passes on . ' 117 In 1729 a freak storm had caused severe damage to the village ( and indeed to other parts of Sussex ) ...
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... less rigid social structure by concluding with the dual marriages of the peasant Agatha with her seducer Baron Wildenhaim and his daughter Amelia with her clergyman tutor . Kotzebue's intentions were undeniably humanitarian , even if ...
... less rigid social structure by concluding with the dual marriages of the peasant Agatha with her seducer Baron Wildenhaim and his daughter Amelia with her clergyman tutor . Kotzebue's intentions were undeniably humanitarian , even if ...
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