History of Ideas: Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
TALKING POLITICS
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Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility. She is often described as a novelist who's left politics out of her novels. But Jane Austen is political all the way through in the way that Mary Wollstonecraft understands politics,. The question of the relationship between Sense and sensibility is a question about power. It's about the risks of mutual corruption.
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