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The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as p...

Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the educated reading public in many countries, Austen's no...

Jane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include Henry James and Virginia Woolf, both of whom she influenced. Yet amid...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire County; she was the seventh of eight children of George Austen, a clergyman of the Church of England. Austen family tradition holds that an early version of...

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen, that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austen's novels to be published, under the pseudonym "A Lady". The novel has been adapted for film and television a number of...

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In the following essay, Kaufmann discusses the language of law and the language of propriety as they apply to Sense and Sensibility.

In the following essay, Perkins advances the theory that Sense and Sensibility is Elinor Dashwood's story, not Marianne's, and argues that her special interest lies in her position as a female intellectual.

In the following essay, Haggerty argues that in Sense and Sensibility Austen is able to use the narrative to express "authentic feeling" (private desire) without hysteria and to investigate social behavior (public voice) without cool detachment and an abandonment of all emotion.

Information about the literary style of Jane Austen as seen in her six novels, including a plot summary of "Sense and Sensibility." Plus, a character analysis of Elinor, who believes one's heart should be controlled by good sense and moral principle, and her sister Marianne, who let's her heart guide her decisions.

In the "Sense and Sensibility" Austen was particularly concerned with "the code of values and conduct" (Paris 74), giving a great emphasis on marriage and courtship, everyday social intercourse, and family relations, in relation to the destructive results of excessive sensibility and worldliness (Paris 80 - 81).

In this novel "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen uses the title of the book to illustrate the differences between the two main characters: Elinor to represent sense and Marianne to represent sensibility. Sense and sensibility also indicates a split division, polar opposites, and how these opposites compliment each other.