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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