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| Refers to Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Persuasion in which the heroine has an essentially sound understanding of her heart and situation but has to undergo trials to test this understanding. See Austen’s Cycle of Comedies. Candour as Austen understood it differs from its modern usage, meaning Stainlessness of character; purity, integrity, innocence (OED 2); Freedom from mental bias, openness of mind; fairness, impartiality, justice (OED 3); Freedom from malice, favourable disposition, kindliness; ‘sweetness of temper, kindness’ (OED 4); see the OED entry for Candour and the section on Candour. Refers to Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Emma where the heroine is blocked from fulfilment by a misunderstanding and spends most of the action trying to establish a sound understanding of her heart and situation. See Austen’s Cycle of Comedies. The Enlightenment refers to the eighteenth century European liberal intellectual movement that rejected the intellectual authority of church and state, summed up Kant’s 1784 essay What is Enlightenment? Elinor Dashwood is the heroine of Sense and Sensibility. “No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour. You must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance in general with greater attention; but when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or to conform to their judgment in serious matters?” Vol. I, Ch. XVII, see Happiness. Emma is the last novel published by Austen (1816), and regarded by many as her greatest novel. (See, for example, Trilling (1957)). Emma Woodhouse is the heroine of Emma. Fanny Price is the heroine of Mansfield Park. Mansfield Park is the first-published (1814) of the mature ‘Chawton’ novels. But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions. Willoughby thought the same; and their behaviour at all times, was an illustration of their opinions. Vol. I, Ch. XI (11.2), see Marianne’s Rationalistic View of Social Conventions Northanger Abbey was both Austen’s first and last novel, being the first accepted for publication and the last one published (posthumously, with Persuasion in 1818). Pride & Prejudice is Austen’s second-published (1813) and most popular novel. Persuasion was published posthumously (with Northanger Abbey, and regarded by many critics as not being in its final draft when Austen died (see, for example Trilling (1957)). A device in Plato’s Republic used in a thought experiment to shield its bearer from any unpleasant consequences of their action. Socrates is challenged to show that it makes sense to act ethically even when others could use it to perfectly avoid reaping any negative consequences from their unethical actions. Republic, II, 359c-361d (pp. 47-9). The practice of distorting one’s perception of reality reconcile conflicts between sentiment and reality. (See Sentimentalism.) Sanditon[1] The last body of fictional writing by Austen, written as she was dying, an incomplete story set in a developing holiday resort. Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s first-published novel (1811). The practice of allowing one’s sentiments to uncritically determine one’s values and conduct. (See Romanticism.)
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