Essays about: "Alexandra Taavo"

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  1. 1. Eighteenth-Century Female Conduct in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – An Analysis of Elizabeth Bennet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Taavo; [2008]
    Keywords : conduct manuals; behaviour; eighteenth century; women in literature; virtue; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was written in a time when courtesy literature was a highly popular literary genre. This genre embodied conduct manuals, which conveyed several viewpoints on what was to be regarded as the proper behaviour and manner of a sophisticated young woman. READ MORE