Browsing Department of English by Author "Watkins, Patti"

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From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M. (1999-02-24)

The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were co ...