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- Jane Austen had two quarrels with the cult of sensibility. The first was that people might exaggerate and falsify their feelings in order to be thought superior. The other was that even when feelings were deeply held and true, they did not excuse their owner from observing the common decencies of social behaviour.
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Jane Austen had two quarrels with the cult of sensibility. The first was that people might exaggerate and falsify their feelings in order to be thought superior. The other was that even when feelings were deeply held and true, they did not excuse their owner from observing the common decencies of social behaviour.
The chapter suggests that Austen's career-long critique of the cult of sensibility should not be confused with an “anti-sentimental” posture since the terms of her critique come from within the sentimental tradition itself.
Austen shares Wollstonecraft’s interest in the pitfalls of feeling, and in the role of fiction, and literature more broadly, in promoting the cult of sensibility.
Butler's seminal work Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, which first appeared in the mid-1970s, compares Austen's castigation of Marianne's sensibility with Austen's own disapproval of...
Dive deep into Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Dec 19, 2020 · Unstable and shifting in its sympathies and issues, Sense and Sensibility has long been treated as disappointing and odd, the redheaded stepchild of the Austen canon.
her novels, Austen fashions shame as a valuable mediator between senti-mental absorption and what she terms, in Northanger Abbey , "affected indif-ference."7 Rather than repress or disavow sensibility in order to avoid its shame, Austen revises the emotional intensities and investments of sensibil-
