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Jane Austen, Landscape and Politics

This selection of articles is intended to support Robert Clark's third-year undergraduate course at the University of East Anglia on Jane Austen, Landscape and Politics. The course addresses issues in land use, land ownership, picturesque theory and contemporary political events which bear on Austen's writing.

Articles

Agricultural Enclosures: the major phase, 1760 onwards 1760
An Epistle to Burlington [Moral Essay IV].  (Pope, Alexander) 1731 - 2744
Austen, Jane 1795 - 1817
Brown, Capability 1741 - 1783
Burke, Edmund 1756 - 1797
Chateau de Versailles and its gardens 1661 - 1789
Circulating Libraries 1742 - 1900
Cobbett, William 1792 - 1835
Concordia Discors c. 450 BCE - c. 1750
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.  (Gray, Thomas) 1751
Emma.  (Austen, Jane) 1816
Entail 1640 - 1880
Famine; Speenhamland system of Poor Relief 1795 - 1834
Gilpin, William 1748 - 1804
Godwin, William 1793 - 1836
Goldsmith, Oliver 1757 - 1774
Gray, Thomas 1736 - 1771
Industrial Revolution 1750 - 1860
Jacobin Novel 1780 - 1814
Jacobins and Anti-Jacobins 1789 - 1815
Kent, William 1719 - 1748
Persuasion.  (Austen, Jane) 1817
Picturesque 1710 - 1820
Pope, Alexander 1709 - 1744
Price, Uvedale 1794 - 1829
Reflections on the Revolution in France.  (Burke, Edmund) 1790
Repton, Humphry 1786 - 5818
Review of Jane Austen’s Emma.  (Sir Walter Scott) 1816
Taste 1710 - 1800
The Deserted Village.  (Goldsmith, Oliver) 1770
The English Landscape Garden 1600 - 1818
The Rise and Progress of the Present Taste in Planting Parks, Pleasure Grounds and Gardens.  (Anonymous) 1767
The Traveller: A Prospect of Society.  (Goldsmith, Oliver) 1764
Tintern Abbey.  (William Wordsworth) 1798
Windsor-Forest [Windsor Forest].  (Pope, Alexander) 1713
Wollstonecraft, Mary 1787 - 1797

Searches

British Works and Events, 1780-1820 [Timeline]