Download or read book Jane Austen and the State of the Nation written by Sheryl Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels.