The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen

• Main Author: Baublyté Kaufmann, Ruta (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.

This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure. More precisely, the book contends that there are overlapping natural and cultural cycles which co-exist in a constantly transmut...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Changing seasons: the cyclical and the linear
• 3. Changing homes: transformations in space and time
• 4. Spatiotemporal movements and psychological change: walking and dancing
• 5. Conclusion.