Reading Jane Austen

This book places the major novels of Jane Austen within the moral and social contexts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England in a clear and accesible language.

Mona Scheuermann is Professor of English at Oakton Community College. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Berne. She is the author of Social Protest in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel; Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen; and In Praise of Poverty.