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The Conclusion asks the reader to understand a key provocation underpinning the book: that Smith and Austen mutually write a new model/mode/manner/mood into the novel. Drawing on the idea of the companionate marriage, it pulls together the argument of the book to describe the notion of ‘co-writing’, and it rejects once and for all the picture of Austen as the isolated genius.
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The Making of Jane Austen (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).
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Cultures: the colonial as well as the social.
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Claire Brock, The Feminization of Fame 1750–1830 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Tom Mole, Romanticism and Celebrity Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Adela Pinch, Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999). Tilar Mazzeo, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
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Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Peterborough: Broadview, 1997), 54, 192, 249.
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Edgeworth dramatizes this when she has Clement meet Belinda at a masked ball.
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The best investigation of Ethelinde’s play-acting remains Joseph Morrissey’s. See Women’s Domestic Activity in the Romantic-Period Novel, 1770–1820: Dangerous Occupations (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Chapter 5.
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From personal experience, Smith knows just how all-encompassing and all-powerful the system of Law is, how easily it can be used against any sense of Justice.
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Labbe, J.M. (2020). Conclusion: Co-writing, or, Who Wrote Jane Austen’s Novels?. In: Reading Jane Austen After Reading Charlotte Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38829-4_6
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