Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… to ‘not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world […] ’. 3 Austen’s correspondence also shows … for while respectable courtship was conducted openly under the surveillance of the social group, the expression of real affection and desire required private communication. Covert affairs, like that of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill in … groups. But succeeding generations of readers have held Austen’s characters and the author herself in such familiar affection that a popular cult of Austenolotry grew up around her fictions. 14 From the mid-twentieth century, literary …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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