Titlebook: Jane Austen and the State of the Nation; Sheryl Craig Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 Jane Austen.politics.

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as a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen‘s books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.978-1-137-54455-1

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