By Peter Knox-Shaw
It really is now generally understood that Jane Austen's writing and idea have been derived at once from her overdue eighteenth-century youth, yet astonishingly, this can be the 1st learn of the effect of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen. Drawing out the Enlightenment rules and ideas which lie in the back of a lot of Austen's writing, Peter Knox-Shaw provides a brand new point of view at the examine of Austen's novels.
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