TY - BOOK AU - Svenja Strohmeier PY - 2012 CY - München, Germany PB - GRIN Verlag SN - 9783656122166 TI - Society and Neighbourhood in Jane Austen´s 'Emma' DO - 10.3239/9783656122166 UR - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/188454 N2 - This term paper tries to work out the habits and social graces of the regency period by using the novel Emma. Emma by Jane Austen is a novel about a 21-year-old girl living in the small town of Highbury, Surrey, in England. The novel deals with the relationships between the neighbours, the class differences and, typical for Jane Austen novels, marriage and match- making. The characters in this novel may not be as highly-drawn as the ones in Pride and Prejudice are, but it “delineates with great accuracy the manners and the habits of a middle class gentry” (Gentleman´s Magazine in September 1816: Lodge 1972: 46), and thus Emma is convenient to be a source for research for typical habits. In this paper, the aspects of family life, neighbourhood, manners and values in Emma (and thus representatively for the English Regency period) are to be portrayed. KW - Emma, Jane Austen, Regency LA - English ER -