What it actually demonstrates is the increasing incapacity of people to conceive of privilege in other than racial terms. These books are about court or high bourgeois sectors of class-stratified, mono-ethnic societies where "whiteness" is an obvious anachronism. https://twitter.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1281232965981409281 …
Imperial Russia and Imperial Britain were not mono-ethnic societies either -- not by a long shot.
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It's an interesting question whether the very narrowness of the milieu of Austen's novels isn't itself a judgement on it, one that the novelist was aware of. Mansfield Park is about both the security of the milieu & its limits.
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