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Jane Austen and Leisure

David Selwyn

出版	Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998-07-01
主題	History / GeneralHistory / World
ISBN	08264466719780826446671
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qFmIt5EEoKMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.