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Reading with Jane Austen rereads Austen’s novels within the context of the rich Georgian literary culture that she and her readers knew well. Austen wrote her novels to evoke readerly expectations of ...

Want to travel around the world without leaving your house? Just pick up a book that was translated from another language. Whether you are reading a novel originally written in French, a memoir ori…

The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S. alongside two major nineteenth-century lit...

The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S. alongside two major nineteenth-century lit...