No Abiding Place: Jane Austen in Space and Time

Authors

Douglas Murray, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

Like all literary criticism, my contribution to this collection is autobiographical. This packing and unpacking—performed with a mixture of repentance and achievement, nostalgia and forecast, regret and hope—recalled no one so much as (you guessed it) Jane Austen, who in her brief 41 years had to pack and unpack as often as most modern academics. This statement—that Jane Austen moved about—contradicts our notion of the woman.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Murray, Douglas (2014) "No Abiding Place: Jane Austen in Space and Time," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 5, Article 6.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol5/iss1/6