Titlebook: Jane Austen‘s Possessions and Dispossessions; The Significance of Sandie Byrne Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

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: Everything has its Price,. begins with a sum, a piece of marriage algebra:

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Introduction,from the . in order to distinguish between an object and a thing, though in some of the sources cited these terms are used interchangeably. The . defines an object as, originally, ‘something placed before or presented to the eyes or other senses’ and now more generally, ‘a material thing that can be

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: Giving and Taking,er protagonists? Because objects (property in the sense of owned objects and properties in the sense of real estate) are central to the story. The line ‘That is a material consideration undoubtedly’ (I p. 25) spoken by John Dashwood to his wife is identified by Barbara Hardy as an instance of Austen

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: General Impressions,characters. Possession of Longbourn is central to the novel, but although the consequences of the entail are discussed, it is in terms of the income that the estate yields, and a roof over the women’s heads; no one suggests that the financial loss will follow the loss of well-loved rooms, gardens an

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: The Obliged and the Obligated,to play lady-patroness, but of a select and preferably grateful few, an even less wealthy and less well-born woman who deserves an unpatronising patroness, and a woman less wealthy and less well-born still who is on the receiving end of patronage, . represents a nexus of obliging, obliged and obliga

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: Loss and Retrieval, depend also upon chance: the chance of being first-born son of a landowner; the chance of coming upon the right ship at the right time. Who has land, who has money; who deserves either but has neither; who deserves neither; who is envious; whose lives would have been different had they had money or

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