Reading Jane Austen
Reading Jane Austenexplores Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion against their historical and cultural backdrop to show precisely how Jane Austen sets out the core themes of British morality in her novels. Austen s period was arguably
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: “Truths Universally Acknowledged”
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I
A Moral Tapestry
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Mansfield Park: “The real and consistent patron of the selected child”
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2
Mansfield Park: “So long as it be a German play”
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Mansfield Park: “If tenderness could ever be supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place”
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II
Social Grids
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