Physical Illness and Mental Disease in Connection with Marriages in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma

Abstract

What I will explore in my dissertation is the world of Jane Austen’s typical genre, the comedy of manners. By investigating three of her texts, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma, I will explore how this apparently comic genre contains darker elements through their metaphorical subtexts, particularly in the type of illnesses and diseases.