Bücher von Edward (Pomona College Copeland

The fictional world of women in the time of Jane Austen set in the context of social and economic reality.

This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels, wildly popular in the early years of the nineteenth century and yet condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, were in fact political fictions designed to effect an alliance of the middle-classes and the aristocracy.