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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 169–175.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... However, it is precisely this adventitious circulation of letters that breaks the information blockage of the novel and opens a pathway to erotic resolution of the love lives of the two sisters, Elinor and Marianne. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Resistance on the Circuit...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 444–462.
Published: 01 November 2022
... herself from the novel's observation. In Sense and Sensibility , this close observation is sometimes directed upon Elinor. Her singular aim for most of the novel is “guarding her countenance” ( Austen 124 ), not only from Lucy's “little sharp eyes” ( 123 ) but from everyone, even as the novel gives us...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 313–317.
Published: 01 August 2019
.... The discussion of Austen's Sense and Sensibility in chapter 4 similarly shreds any easy measure of “happiness” or calculable well-being with sharp-edged irony (the prompt is Elinor Dashwood's announcing to the man she loves that Col. Brandon will offer him enough money to allow him to marry Lucy Steele...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 340–343.
Published: 01 August 2013
... between Willoughby and herself, he finally sacrifices that love for her rival’s money. When Elinor Dashwood receives the (incor- rect) news of Edward Ferrar’s marriage to Lucy Steele, the narrator offers a formula for the brutal certitude of facts: “Elinor now found the difference between...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 368–388.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... This query grants us a surprising degree of critical leverage precisely because Austen’s fiction works so diligently to make and remake just this point—that food is fun- damentally not interesting. For example, in Sense and Sensibility (1811), after Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor and Marianne...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2006
..., technological advancement brings with it new mysteries (69, 77). And as It reveals, the mysteries of sex and tech complement one another particularly well. In Daly's account, Elinor Glyn and Clara Bow's collaboration is a Cinderella story that makes viewers un- derstand every woman, even one...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 497–503.
Published: 01 November 2009
... affirmations of sisterly intimacy in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice occur after the sisters are safely married off. It is worth remembering that Elinor Dashwood says almost noth- ing to Marianne about her feelings for Edward, and even the ebullient Marianne speaks only what and when she...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the unimpressed American readers of this essay in the New Republic , Edmund Wilson complained thus: “Mrs. Woolf, [Elinor Wylie] declared, had asked her why she tried to write literary English; she had told Elinor that it would be much more interesting if she let herself go in her native American and tried...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 254–271.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's draw- ings were affrxed to the zualls of their sitting room. (61) The "other possessions" essential to their humble home include "household linen, plate, [and] china" (58). Like the pianoforte that displays Marianne's...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 161–179.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and Anti-Taylorism .” International Studies of Management and Organization 5 . 3 ( 1975 ): 4 – 15 . Ngai Sianne . “ Theory of the Gimmick .” Critical Inquiry 43 ( 2017 ): 466 – 505 < https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/689672 >. Ostrom Elinor . Governing...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 218–239.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and finds her “eye . . . caught by every thing pretty, expensive, or new; who was wild to buy all, could determine on none, and dawdled away her time in rapture and indecision” (157). D. A. Miller equates Austen's style with just such a scene of indecision, when Robert Ferrars invites Elinor's “contempt...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 May 2013
... with her social environment is offered by Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814). In the opening of this novel, the heroine Elinor tries to escape incognita from Terror-stricken France and is the object of the potentially harmful curiosity of her traveling companions on the boat crossing the English...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 382–401.
Published: 01 November 2011
... millionaire he set out to be. Elinor Henderson, an ambitious young writer aiming to exorcise her family’s guilty involvement in the exploitation of the islands by writing a book exposing their actions, is suddenly killed in a tsunami before writing a word. A promising hero in waiting, America Kee...