Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… [The Netherfield Ball], Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894), p. 113. Abstract As a novelist of manners and an acute observer of human interactions, Jane Austen analysed the implications of late Georgian and Regency … to be insufficient. For Austen’s central protagonists, true sociability is expressed not in the polite language and manners of earlier models of social intercourse but demonstrated through meaningful acts of consideration towards others. … whom Mr Knightley determines ‘can be amiable only in French, not in English’: ‘He may be very “aimable,” have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people’ (Austen, Emma …
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