From "Pictures of Perfection" to "No Ideal Expression": How Jane Austen Reimagines and Reinvents Eighteenth-Century Heroines

Authors

Gretchen Picklesimer Kinney

Keywords

Jane Austen, Heroines, 18th Century Heroines, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Heroines, archetypes, stock character

Issue and Volume

Volume 16, Issue 2

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Picklesimer Kinney, Gretchen (2024) "From "Pictures of Perfection" to "No Ideal Expression": How Jane Austen Reimagines and Reinvents Eighteenth-Century Heroines," Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism: Vol. 16: Iss. 2, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/vol16/iss2/7