Jane Austen and LeisureBloomsbury Academic, 1999 - 352 pagini "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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... Harriet's coming in ; and if Harriet's praise could have satisfied her , she might soon have been comforted . ' Oh ! if I could but play as well as you and Miss Fairfax ! ' ' Don't class us together , Harriet . My playing is no more ...
... Harriet's coming in ; and if Harriet's praise could have satisfied her , she might soon have been comforted . ' Oh ! if I could but play as well as you and Miss Fairfax ! ' ' Don't class us together , Harriet . My playing is no more ...
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... Harriet [ who has eloped ] from head to foot , imprudence and all . ' Then , ' my guardian asked as soon as he could be heard , ' why do you eternally scold her for faults , if she has committed none ? ' ' You catch one up so , Mr ...
... Harriet [ who has eloped ] from head to foot , imprudence and all . ' Then , ' my guardian asked as soon as he could be heard , ' why do you eternally scold her for faults , if she has committed none ? ' ' You catch one up so , Mr ...
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... Harriet Smith will do nothing . ' 40 Another aspect of the irony that Harriet should undertake a collection of intellectual puzzles is her inability to solve them . The 1823 author , presenting the enigma as a means of teaching ' the ...
... Harriet Smith will do nothing . ' 40 Another aspect of the irony that Harriet should undertake a collection of intellectual puzzles is her inability to solve them . The 1823 author , presenting the enigma as a means of teaching ' the ...
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