Sense And Sensibility Critics Flashcards
“Experiences of women in and with literature are different from those of men”
Sandra Gilbert
“Marriage was one of the few respectable occupations open to them, and literally their only means of survival”
Judy Simons
“A life of female rebellion, … is a life that must be silenced”
Gilbert and Gubar
“Imaginative women were infected and sickened by their dreams”
Gilbert and Gubar
“Elinor’s stoical self restraint is the strength of her good sense while Marianne’s indulgence in sensibility almost causes her own death”
Gilbert and Gubar
“If we at all feel disappointed, it is because the novel has allowed us to admire some aspect of Marianne’s impulsiveness”
John Mullan
“Her willed sensitivity has so weakened her that she is in real danger” [Marianne]
John Mullan
“Now understands she must abandon her selfish ways and take her place in society” [Marianne]
H. Fram
“Symbolic of ridding herself of Willoughby’s influence” [Marianne]
H. Fram
“The father of every ‘adult’ child who has to make a decision over matrimony, … is either dead or absent”
Ros Ballaster
“Total exclusion of fathers from the scene of action”
Ros Ballaster
“Consumption is Austen’s euphemism … for syphilis”
Marie E. McAllister
“Each is harmed by love and her own actions”
Marie E. McAllister
For women to succeed they had to “marry advantageously, … and their persons often legally prostituted”
Mary Wollstonecraft
“Marriage … means not only feelings but property”
Dorothy Van Ghent
The alternative to marriage was “loneliness and poverty”
Janet Todd
Austen’s mothers were split into three categories, “the spectator, the matchmaker and the manager”
Rachel Dodge
