Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… gossip (Austen, Emma , II.vi.215). 8 Austen’s marriage plots pivot around episodes of sociability for which romantic love is the energising force. The arrival into the community of ‘a single man in possession of a good fortune’ signals … or the Crawfords, who excel in the rhetoric and performance of polite sociability, deceive not only their potential lovers but the whole neighbourhood. 10 6 . Emma, ed. Richard Cronin and Dorothy McMillan (Cambridge: Cambridge University … through her characters of the expanding participation of new classes into provincial sociability. Darcy comes to love Elizabeth’s aunt and uncle Mr Gardiner, who ‘lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses’; 13 Emma learns …
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