Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… rather than metropolitan sociability, which by the early nineteenth century had come to be associated with sterile politeness and corrupt morality. In a country neighbourhood or a ‘large and prosperous village’ like Emma ’s Highbury, … Wars. 12 . The ‘new concept of gentlemanly masculinity’ is analysed in Michèle Cohen, '‘Manners’ Make the Man: Politeness, Chivalry and the Construction of Masculinity, 1750-1830’, Journal of British Studies (vol. 44, 2005), p. … of the internet has generated new and unexpected sites for sociability, which in turn are mediated by their own forms of politeness; 15 millennial Janeites exchange Austen memes and create fan fictions based on the novels, and fora such as …
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