Chiefly a celebration - and why not? - of Austen's wit, this will
be most welcome to those who come fresh to this great English
novelists (Austen lovers will not really want the long synopses of
her novels). The author's love and veneration for his subject shine
appealingly through chapters on the church and clergy, rank and
status, marriage and morals in his heroine's books. Lord David
Cecil re-written for another generation; and very welcome too.
(Kirkus UK)
Rank and state, church and clergy, marriage, Jane Austen's own
convictions: a historian explores. "Can he be a sensible man, sir?"
"No, my dear; I think not..." Thus Christopher Brooke prefaces his
study of Jane Austen, whose sharp intelligence and wit have been
the companions of his leisure for many years.In answer to the
question as to whether there can be anything left to be said,
Brooke returns rewardingly to her own writing, the novels and the
letters, and with a historian's precision reveals new detail and
fresh insights. What is the world Jane Austen describes, and how is
it related to the world in which she lived? A close reading of each
of the major novels leads into a detailed examination of a sheaf of
themes - church and clergy, rank and status,marriage - to see how
they are handled in their social and historical setting, what is
revealed about Jane Austen's deepest convictions, and how these
might be validly deduced from the text of her novels. The wisdom
and insight hehas brought to historical research are now
rewardingly brought to bear on a novelist of endless fascination.
The late CHRISTOPHER BROOKE enjoyed a wide reputation as a
historian, primarily of the medieval church and other institutions
(he is the author of The Medieval Idea of Marriage), and of the
18th-century church portrayed so frequently, and so variously, in
Jane Austen's novels.
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