Social Performance and Reticence: Mental Negotiations in Austen, Brontë, and Eliot
This thesis examines how three nineteenth-century British novels purvey and critique contemporary standards regarding social performance and reticence and the strains such standards place on those whose dispositions disincline them to conform to the regulations for decorum articulated in conduct boo...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2015
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| Online Access: | http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3776 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4769&context=etd |