... of shame. With the notable exceptions of D. W. Harding and Bernard Paris, most critics of Jane Austen have not focused on the emotional content and concern with affect in her novels, preferring to concentrate either on her technical manipulations of tone and structure or on her moral thematics. This is particularly true of Pride and Prejudice, a novel which Austen herself referred ... view of his own warehouses." "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?" Darcy pointedly asks. Still worse than the "situation of your mother's family," Darcy notes, is "that to...

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... Mr. Collins; the younger Bennet daughter, Lydia; and her lover, Wickham, with whom she scandalously elopes. It is often pointed out that Austen's novels emphasize characterization and romanticism, but in Pride and Prejudice the emphasis is on the irony, values and realism of the characters as they develop throughout the ... 's ironic opinion. When Mary Bennet is the only daughter at home and does not have to be compared with her prettier sisters, the author notes that: "it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance." (pg.189) Mr. Bennet turns his ...

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