"One word from you will silence me on this subject forever": Jane Austen and the Culture of Consent.
This essay analyzes Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in dialogue with consent discourse through her nuanced examination of marriage and courtship, considering how she critiqued sexually inappropriate behavior through characters like Wickham and Collins and modeled behaviors for cultivating consensu...
| Published in: | Pennsylvania Literary Journal (2151-3066) Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 154 - 183 |
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Pennsylvania Literary Journal
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