Premium Content Men, Women, and the Willful Misinterpretation of Female Speech
By E. Rubinstein - October 09, 2001
Female speech in Jane Austen's novels is heavily dictated by the whims of her male characters, and although "[f]emale speech is never entirely repressed in Austen's fiction, [it] is dictated so as to mirror or otherwise reassure masculine desire" (Johnson 37). However, there are times when women stray from the gendered rules of speech and, in…
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