... the possibility that a female gaze does exist, this argument is often supported by the interaction between the male and female characters in many of Austen's novels. Deciding whether or not Austen was exhibiting a female gaze can best be determined by comparing the role of the gaze in Austen's most widely known ... power. In other words, men find self-fulfilment in being recognized as powerful, even if they are not. Austen's novels are full of men who fit this description. In Pride and Prejudice, for instance, power and the male gaze are equated with economic status and choosing a wife. W...

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... 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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