'The novelist of home' : silence and the theorisation of domesticity in Jane Austen's fiction

This thesis offers a re-examination of the nearly two-centuries-old idea that Jane Austen is 'the novelist of home'. How, it asks, can we reconcile the seemingly opposing notions of Austen's famed insular focus on domestic life, with its corresponding restraints upon women, and her cl...

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Main Author: Stanley, Kerry
Other Authors: Batchelor, Jennie ; Gilmore-Kavanagh, Declan
Published: University of Kent 2018
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739526