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,‘Gentlemen read better books’,the English novel, in terms both of the number of works produced and of the rate at which they were consumed, chiefly through the commercial institution called the circulating library. Most of the widely read books of the time — about half of which were written by women — have now been forgotten, bu

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,‘But you know, we must marry’,ven a professedly realistic novel does not escape the current code by which the unorganised events of life are required to be sieved and processed in order to produce an acceptable novel. The two epigraphs to this chapter indicate the opposite poles between which a novelist has to function: the form

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,‘To hear my uncle talk of the West Indies’,y factory smoke, or hybridised by contact with the colonies, it must be recognised that in the late eighteenth century, when Jane Austen was growing up, England’s economy was already inextricably tied up with territories overseas. Overt and incidental references to these newly appropriated lands pun

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,‘Crowd in a little room’,oicing the author’s view on the subject. Although London and Bath often feature in Jane Austen’s novels as settings for developments in the plot — serving to bring people together, to separate or to regroup them, or to dislocate them from the familiar context — the important events and the final res

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Conclusion,f of the frail, frightened and nubile heroine who has to scuttle through a minefield of aggressive virility, illustrates two such interrelated assumptions: that woman is essentially the object of male sexual desire, and that chastity is the supreme female virtue.