Taylor Walle, from “‘He looked quite red’: Persuasion and Austen’s New Man of Feeling”

Taylor Walle’s article reconsiders the status of sensibility and the “man of feeling” in Jane Austen’s Persuasion by examining the novel’s “blushing hero,” Frederick Wentworth. The novel, Walle argues, shows that sensibility and masculinity are compatible and demonstrates Austen’s own desire to realign middle-class values with “fellow-feeling” and sympathy.

Taylor Walle, from “‘He looked quite red’: Persuasion and Austen’s New Man of Feeling”