Essays about: "Regency ideal"

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  1. 1. What Every Man Delights In?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Unn Segrén; [2016]
    Keywords : Emma; Jane Austen; Fordyce; Gregory; Rousseau; 18th-century conduct-manuals; Regency ideal; Ideal woman; Feminism; Feminist; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Jane Austen’s novel Emma (1815) is set in the quiet English countryside and focuses on the young woman Emma Woodhouse, the daughter of an elderly country gentleman. For 200 years this book has been widely read, and its protagonist has evoked strong feelings. Most readers either love, or hate her, but she is rarely met with indifference. READ MORE