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On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen

On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen

Parker, Fred

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367077388
ISBN13: 9780367077389
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 13 2018
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What did she say? - Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.

This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of courtship. Declaring love is understood as the hazardous attempt to find public, social terms which can communicate personal feelings and bring intimacy into being. This was a period highly sensitive to the propriety and artificiality of public forms, and hence peculiarly alive to problems around the idea of saying what you feel, problems experienced especially though not exclusively by women. Through this historical lens the author considers the ways in which we may become entangled with one another through language, the limits to our operation as independent individuals, and whether in love you can only feel what you can tell.

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