milosc-i-bliskosc: Jane Austen

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The concept and presentation of love in Jane Austen. Critics of Jane Austen can be divided into three groups. The first group, which includes W. H. Helm, Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern regards Marianne Dashwood as Jane Austen's only passionate heroine. Her other heroines are condemned for their common sense by these critics, who contend that love is an irrational phenomenon. Love and reason, they believe, are mutually exclusive. Jane Austen saw love as a marriage of these two facets of man's being. Aware of its duality, at once both emotional and rational, she saw the inadequacies (and dangers) of "love" which based itself solely on passion. Mr. Bennet is one of Austen's examples of a ma…

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Jane Austen uncensored : a critical and pedagogical study of Austen's letters for the college classroom. A vast amount of literary critical and scholarly work on Jane Austen's writing, including her juvenilia, has been published.However, insufficient attention has been paid to her extant letters and their significance.This dissertation redresses the imbalance and is the first extensive critical, scholarly discussion of Jane Austen's correspondence and their pedagogical applications.In order to rectify the disparity, this dissertation examines Jane Austen's surviving letters to determine how to contextualize them historically and biographically and in relation to her fiction for college comp…

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Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas

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