Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… Despite the witty repartee of Austen’s dialogues, the novels move away from conversation as the principal paradigm governing British sociability and suggest a new, morally informed mode of social … (1817), explains that her ‘idea of good company’ is that of ‘clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation’ (Austen, Persuasion , II.iv.162); but words alone are shown to be insufficient. For Austen’s central …
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