1. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

2. Jane Austen
A popular English novelist during the 19th century, though she published anonymously.
All six of her novels are novels of manners:
A novel that thoroughly describes the customs, behaviors, habits, and expectations of a certain social group at a specific time and place. Often the novel of manners is satiric, and is always realistic in depiction.
Austen’s greatest satiric tool is irony.

3. Sense and Sensibility: Social Satire
Sense VERSUS Sensibility
Marianne Dashwood relies on sensibility instead of sense (like her sister Elinor Dashwood), meaning that she is very sensitive and emotional.
Sensibility was a popular quality in women, but ladies often went to self-indulgent extremes, which is what Austen satirizes in Sense and Sensibility.

4. Sense and Sensibility: Social Satire, cont.
Exposes and criticizes the limitations of women during 19th century England:
No chance for high education.
Not directly involved in politics.
No professions, expected to stay at home.
Could not own property.
Women had to rely on marriage to secure social positions and financial stability for the future.

5. William Hogarth’s Marriage A-la-Mode http://smarthistory. khanacademy

6. Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à Tête

7. The Inspection

8. The Toillete

9. The Bagnio

10. The Lady’s Death

11. Sense and Sensibility
Mr. Henry Dashwood dies and leaves all his money to his first wife's son John Dashwood, who is married to Fanny.
Mr. Henry Dashwood’s widow, Mrs. Dashwood, and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, are left with no permanent home and very little income.