This selection of short, engaging essays examines and explains key terms that Jane Austen repeatedly drew on in her fiction, words which have faded from everyday use today but are vital to understanding her fiction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Address (and Air)
Agreeable, agreeableness
Amiable, amiability
Approbation
Character
Civility
Claim
Complaisance
Condescension
Consequence
Constancy
Countenance
Delicacy
Disposition
Ease
Elegance
Enthusiasm
Esteem
Exertion
Fancy
Felicity
Folly
Gentility
Gratitude
Honour
Impertinence
Improvement
Indifference
Indolence
Interest
Intimacy
Liberality
Liveliness
Manner
Natural
Obstinate
Persuasion
Propriety
Prudence
Recommendation
Reproach
Reserve
Sense
Sensibility
Society
Solicitude
Spirit
Understanding
Vanity (and Pride)
Worth
Works Cited
Index
