Bücher von Debra Teachman

A critical presentation of Jane Austen's six major works of fiction, including perrenial favourites "Emma" and "Pride and Predjudice". It examimes Austen's own background and the historical context of the characters and events in the novels.

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of "Jane Eyre", offering literary analysis as well as contextualizing the novel in terms of the historical and social issues it confronts. There are primary documents from legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters and essays.

Following a literary analysis of the novel, the casebook contains documents and commentary on the following topics: inheritance and marriage laws and customs, 18th-century views on marriage, the status of unmarried women, women's education and moral training, and issues in the 1980s and 1990s that can be contrasted with those in the novel.