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Why Jane Austen’s leading men are such enduringly popular heartthrobs

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par Louise Curran, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Birmingham

In Ang Lee’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995), the handsome cad Willoughby (played by Greg Wise) rescues Marianne (Kate Winslet) on horseback in the middle of a raging storm. Pathetic fallacy has rarely looked so good.

Marianne locks eyes with him and falls passionately in love. In Austen’s version, though, it is Marianne’s mother and sister who first register his attractions. “The eyes of both were fixed on him…

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