Examining the meaning and implications of the different ways in which various shared categories have been treated on both sides of the Atlantic,... Læs mere
First published in 1987, Mary Evan's study argues that far from endorsing established and conservative views Jane Austen advances a radical critique of the morality of bourgeois capitalism and demonstrates a concern for the articulation of women's rights.
It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory?