Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England.(Book Review)

From: Christianity and Literature | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England. By Michael Giffin. NY: Palgrave, 2002. ISBN 0-333-94808-4. Pp. 222.

Participating in the continuing critical debate about how best to identify Jane Austen's cultural contexts, Michael Giffin begins his study of Austen and religion by announcing his inclination to read her in light of a long eighteenth century, stretching from 1660 to the end of the Georgian period in 1830. More specifically, he argues that the novels must be read as social and religious commentaries on Georgian Anglicanism. Offering a broad ...

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