Pictures of perfection...make me sick and wicked?: Jane Austen and Reading for Lies

As Austen wrote to her niece Fanny Knight, whose admirer had criticized the behaviour of Austen’s heroines: ‘Pictures of Perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked’.  In this lecture, Emma Major (York) looks at the ways in which Austen encourages us to be suspicious of perfection, and to become better readers of character.

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