"She Knew She Ought to Be Happy": Socialized Subjects in Emma.
This article argues that we have consistently misunderstood Jane Austen's subjects by assimilating them to a political liberalism in which she was uninterested. What matters in Austen is not subjective interiority so much as social status; her presentation of character resists the abstract equality...
| Publicado en: | Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 357 - 375 |
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Duke University Press
Nov2024
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