![]() |3 Contributor biographical information |u |a Inheritance and succession |v Fiction. |a Includes bibliographical references (page -xxxv). |a London |a New York : |b Penguin Books, |c 2003. |a Sense and sensibility / |c Jane Austen edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster with the original Penguin classics introduction by Tony Tanner. Ros Ballaster's introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition discusses Sense and Sensibility as domestic drama and as critique of the wider aesthetic, social and political concerns of Romanticism. ![]() Jane Austen's satirical powers of observation and expression spare no one in this lively study of the constraints placed on gentry women in the eighteenth century. The sisters' parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, causes both to readjust and question their own values. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense, her readiness to observe social forms and Marianne's impulsive candor, her warm but excessive sensibility it also highlights their shared predicament in the face of a competitive marriage market. was more striking' As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's. ![]() 'Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. ![]()
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