Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England firmly asserts Austen as a regency writer concerned about material social history issues. Roger Sales illustrates how Austen’s later work, including her letters, represent major historical developments of her period far more openly and directly than is generally recognised. Roger Sales depicts the ways in which the Austen novels represent dandyism and masculine identities, the Regency crisis and condition-of-England themes and national identity.