Just a quick addendum to note that I deliberately chose to write classicism and not neo-classicism. I agree with MacIntyre that Austen is part of a continuous tradition of ethical thinking that might be called Aristotelian. There is nothing "neo" about it.
I'll say something about that in terms of Elinor's character very soon (although nothing that I haven't more or less already said.)
Update: I won't be getting to Elinor quite so soon as I plan to go through Northanger Abbey first
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