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2. Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Austen’s Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005), p. 114.
3. Christopher R. Miller, ‘Jane Austen’s Aesthetics and Ethics of Surprise’, Narrative 13:3 (2005), pp. 238–60, p. 238.
4. Anne K. Mellor, Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), p. 126.
5. Joseph A. Kestner, ‘Jane Austen: Revolutionizing Masculinities’, Persuasions 16 (1994), pp. 147–60, p. 155.