What About War in Jane Austen’s Novels?
26 May @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The popular view is that public events are largely absent in Jane Austen’s novels, even though Austen (1775-1817) and Napoleon (1769-1821) were near contemporaries.
Many of her communications were from far-flung theatres of war, but Austen is truly a novelist of the home front. Why don’t we notice the war in her novels?
Kathryn Sutherland, Author & Professor of English and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford
