Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… manners and an acute observer of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency sociability with regard to gender and social rank. Critiquing earlier notions of polite sociability, her fictions recognise new sites of provincial recreation and explore the intersection between sociability and courtship while also probing sociability’s … Studies (vol. 40, n°4, 2017), p. 537-555. Sociability in the novels Austen’s principal focus in the novels is on provincial rather than metropolitan sociability, which by the early nineteenth century had come to be associated with …
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