D.W. Harding, “‘Regulated Hatred’: An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen”

D.W. Harding’s influential essay challenges the predominant early twentieth-century view of Austen’s novels as politely satirical celebrations of civility; he examines the more biting aspects of Austen’s satire, in which he sees evidence of a deeper objection to the “crudenesses and complacencies” that she observed in her society.

D.W. Harding, “‘Regulated Hatred’: An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen”