What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

Introduction: Drawing Character, Reading Books: Building a Society of Readers
Chapter 1: "Her Reading Was Very Extensive": Austen and Her Community of Great Readers
Chapter 2: Readers of Feeling: Northanger Abbey and Sensibility
Chapter 3: "What Becomes of the Moral?" Reading Conduct Books and Pride and Prejudice
Chapter 4: "In the Midst of Theatrical Nonsense": Performative Reading in Mansfield Park
Chapter 5: Becoming a Renter, a Chuser of Books in Mansfield Park
Chapter 6: Meaning to Read More: Emma and the Clever Reader
Chapter 7: Readers of Romance: Persuasion and Sanditon
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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa

Regency; Regency writers; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Letters on the Improvement of the Mind; Addresses to Young Men; Lovers' Vow; Shakespeare; Emma; history of reading; Sanditon; Persuasion; Romanticism; women's writing