Jane Austen's role in promoting enlightenment
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I'm currently reading "Sense and Sensibility", and faced with a challenging post in which I am expected to give a personal opinion as to whether Jane Austen is considered a romanticist or an author that promotes "enlightenment".
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Jane Austen's role in promoting enlightenment is examined.
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Socio-culturally, Austen wrote at a crossroads; at the same time that romanticism had reached its peak, new ways of exploring, knowing, and defining the world and human culture or experience ...
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