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Jane Austen's geographies / edited by Robert Clark. - x, 256 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 23 cm - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 32. . - Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 32. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-x) and index

List of illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Standard References Introduction Conjugal Excursions, at Home and Abroad, in Jane Austen’s “Juvenilia” and Sanditon (1817) Emotional and Imperial Topographies Mapping Feeling in “Catharine, or the Bower” Tales of Inheritance from West Kent 1 Wessex Tales The West Country Background to Jane Austen Traveling Shoe Roses The Geography of Things in Austen’s Works “Slight and Fugitive Indications” Some Locations in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice ‘That Is Capital’ Views of London in Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen’s Allusive Geographies London’s Streets, Squares, and Gardens How Celebrity Name-Dropping Leads to a New Location for Pemberley 1 “If You Could Discover Whether Northamptonshire Is a Country of Hedgerows” The Location of Mansfield Park Mobility in England, 1816 Austen’s Emma and Repton’s “View from My Own Cottage” Notes on Contributors Index Robert Clark John C. Leffel Ana-Karina Schneider Mark Ballard Pat Rogers Beth Kowaleski Wallace Robert Clark E. J. Clery Laurie Kaplan Janine Barchas Robert Clark Douglas Murray chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 chapter 4 chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12

When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, or of Britain’s imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class, or as symptomatic of political fears and aspirations. Specifically, the essays consider the representation of colonial mail-order wives and naval activities in the Mediterranean, the worrisome nomadism of contemporary capitalism, the complexity of her understanding of the actual places in which her fictions are set, her awareness of and eschewal of contemporary literary conventions, and the burden of the Austen family’s Kentish origins, the political implications of addresses in London and Northamptonshire. Skilful, detailed, and historically informed, these essays open domains of meaning in Austen’s texts that have often gone unseen by later readers but which were probably available to her coterie readers and clearly merit much closer critical attention.

ISBN: 9780815376873 0815376871 9781351235327 135123532X

Subjects--Personal Names:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Criticism and interpretation.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Knowledge--Geography.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Settings.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women and literature--History--England--19th century
Setting (Literature)
Geography and literature.

LC Class. No.: PR4038.G4 / J36 2018