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7 июля 2023 г., 12:30
Neighbours in Jane Austen are not the people actually living nearby; they are the people living a little less
nearby, who, in social recognition, can be visited. What she sees across the land is a network of propertied
houses and families, and through the holes of this tightly drawn mesh most actual people are simply not seen. To
be face-to-face in this world is already to belong to a class [ ... ] The country [ ... ] becomes real only as it
relates to the houses which are the real nodes.
RA YMOND WILLIAMS, Tbe Country and tbe City
