On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen

by Fred Parker

"What did she say? - Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does."

This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of courtship. Declaring love is understood as the hazardous attempt to find public, social terms which can communicate personal feelings and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367664682
• ISBN13: 9780367664688
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages