A "Sweet Face as White as Death": Jane Austen and the Politics of Female Sensibility

The death of women and how their deaths serve the community that gathers around to encourage them while they slowly dwindle away or die with precipitous finality is examined in light of Jane Austen's female characters. Austen's early works are especially striking in their refusal to erotic...

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Anonymous writers. Authors
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
British & Irish literature
Children
Conservatism
Death
Death & dying
Deaths
English literature
English speaking literatures
Females
French speaking and English speaking literatures
Gender equality
Great Britain. Ireland
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Literary criticism
Men
Politics
Sentimentality
Suicide
Sympathy
Women
Womens rights
Womens studies
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