The Male Body and Sensibility: A Study on Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
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Jane Austen, in her last completed novel, Persuasion, rehabilitates the role of sensibility as the concept which sustains social communities and produces sincere Englishness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. With her subtle change in attitude to sensibility in this novel, Austen concentrates its operation on strong relationships based on compassion and consideration which are, in turn, evoked by the ability to feel sympathy to others. Indeed, the emotions and sensibility of the naval men make them quite different characters in comparison to those in Austen’s previous works. Captain Frederick Wentworth, in particular, a promising naval officer who is endowed with those qualities, discloses his sensibility with his body, the latter constituting the representative site of expressing delicate and exquisite feelings. He further represents proper manliness and Englishness with his brother-officers. Austen deprives the landed classes of their influence and moral authority and transfers this power to Anne, Wentworth, and further, naval men, all of whom are endowed with the sensibility which is the basis of moral sense and even a moral “English” heritage. In doing so, the novel suggests a quality requisite to people encountering rapid social change during the period which might perhaps be understood as the legacy that Austen bequeaths to her readers with Persuasion.
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Jane Austen, in her last completed novel, Persuasion, rehabilitates the role of sensibility as the concept which sustains social communities and produces sincere Englishness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. With her subtle change in attitude to sensibility in this novel, Austen concentrates its operation on strong relationships based on compassion and consideration which are, in turn, evoked by the ability to feel sympathy to others. Indeed, the emotions and sensibility of the naval men make them quite different characters in comparison to those in Austen’s previous works. Captain Frederick Wentworth, in particular, a promising naval officer who is endowed with those qualities, discloses his sensibility with his body, the latter constituting the representative site of expressing delicate and exquisite feelings. He further represents proper manliness and Englishness with his brother-officers. Austen deprives the landed classes of their influence and moral authority and transfers this power to Anne, Wentworth, and further, naval men, all of whom are endowed with the sensibility which is the basis of moral sense and even a moral “English” heritage. In doing so, the novel suggests a quality requisite to people encountering rapid social change during the period which might perhaps be understood as the legacy that Austen bequeaths to her readers with Persuasion.
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