Jane Austen's Englishness: Emma as national tale.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)

Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Except in America, she does not travel. She is too soaked in Englishness and English literature to be caught--a most malign histrionic, especially when quiet.

--V. S. PRITCHETT

OF ALL NOVELISTS, Jane Austen is the Anglocentric, narrowly and specifically concerned not with Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but only with England, the English, and Englishness. The novels are determinedly English through and through, a particularity Jane Austen arrived at after completing the juvenilia, those childhood pieces designed for family entertainment and full of jokes ...

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