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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2016  
         
  Article:   JANE AUSTEN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF AN ENLIGHTENMENT TEXT.

Authors:  ROSEMARY TOWNSEND. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as a Classic Example of an Enlightenment Text. Jane Austen’s novel, Sense and Sensibility, presents a classic juxtaposition between reason and emotion as typified by two sisters. Some of the stereotypes of women as excitable, hysterical and over-emotional will be explored, particularly as embodied by female characters within Sense and Sensibility, but the primary focus will be on Elinor Dashwood, an unusual heroine, who represents the rationality and strength of character the novelist clearly wanted to foreground as desirable in a woman.

Keywords: sense, sensibility, Enlightenment, heroine(s), women authors, marriage
 
         
     
         
         
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