Sanditon without a Summer

• Published in: Romanticism (Edinburgh) Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 188 - 198
• Main Author: Dale, Amelia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Edinburgh University Press 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Literary Studies; ecohistoricism; Anthropocene; Tambora; Jane Austen; Austenocene; real estate; capitalism; climate; 1816; summer

To be familiar with Jane Austen’s reception history is to also be familiar with her work being frequently characterised as preoccupied with the minor and the inconsequential. This article asks how we might read Austen’s concern with the microhistorical alongside the Anthropocene. Focusing on Sandito...