Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… the dilemmas created by this interpolation of the private into the public space; for while respectable courtship was conducted openly under the surveillance of the social group, the expression of real affection and desire required private … Press, 2006), I.vi.46. Balls in Austen’s novels serve as important occasions for staging social hierarchies and conducting courtship. Public assemblies, like the opening ball at Meryton in Pride and Prejudice (1813), were organised …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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