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Jane Austen and Leisure (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | David Selwyn | USD 120.16
(Fri Jun 7 08:36:25 2024) | Abebooks | Grand Eagle Retail | ISBN10: 1852851716, ISBN13: 9781852851712, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. This text identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work, by examining her life and by looking at the range of leisure pursuits in her novels. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]
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