"A new approach to Jane Austen seemed impossible, but Susannah Fullerton . . . Has brilliantly hit on the theme of crime and punishment in Austen. Fullerton shows how the Regency world . . . Was really a dangerous place with a fast rising crime rate and a legal system that handed out ferocious sentences. Her book will be essential reading for every Janeite." --Claire Tomalin, award-winning biographer, author of Jane Austen: A Life.
"I have derived so much knowledge and enjoyment from Jane Austen and Crime. Fullerton depicts a society beset by crimes both petty and serious, with little protection for the public and less mercy for the criminal . . . She shows how Jane Austen’s youthful fascination with suicide and murder developed into a mature acknowledgement of the many ways in which transgression shapes even an outwardly respectable society." -- Maggie Lane, author of Jane Austen and Food, Jane Austen's World, and others
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in., 250 pages. Pub. Jones Books. Includes Bibliography and Index.
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