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MR. BENNET AND THE FAILURES OF FATHERHOOD IN JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS
A. Bur gan, Indiana
Mary
University
In the few pronouncements about her art in her letters, Jane Austen outlined the main arguments social and political against attributing no theoretical to her work; she admitted preten having significance sions at all, claiming only accuracy and proportion and wit for her vir tues.1 once Despite again the her well-known of demurrers, subject in Jane I want Austen's in this essay to raise canvass problem novels?to
to social from a "sociological" point of view the nature of her response and economic in English society. My reason for sifting over the changes in the evidence is that I think an adjustment already finely ground view initiated by the author herself ought to be commonly accepted I want to push a bit against the impression made. that Jane Austen had insulated herself and her art from the social changes of her successfully remark that Jane Austen
References: (London, 1933) ' 5 vols Mr.