17159 Plays and always expensive

and always expensive

an advice book for young memsahibs in India

and the body's place in culture

and after Jane Austen for a deeper appreciation of her art

17159 Plays and always expensiveSteiner uses a variety of contexts to appraise Austen's work against the backdrop of civil society and gender. How do humans navigate civil society? Steiner tackles Austen's exploration of this process as a deep subject, a constant preoccupation of Western civilization that involves questions of morality, agency and autonomy, sociability, rationality, and how these issues are inflected when gender is involved. Originally published in 2012, now