Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… negotiates her way through the crowds at the Pump Room, the Assembly Rooms and the theatre, where playgoers are as much spectators of each other as of the play. Commercial spaces of the new leisure economy, like circulating libraries and … marginalised heroine of Mansfield Park (1814) is found anxiously practicing her steps before her first ball. While spectators watched, dancers sized up partners for their marital suitability. 11 Henry Tilney’s analogy of ‘a …
Courtship | Fiction | Gender | Public sphere
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