Editing Sense and Sensibility (section)

===Harmony with the environment===
The new discipline of [[Ecocriticism]] extends the examination of imbalance in Austen’s novels and finds that she "antedated Victorian novelists in predicting early signs of environmental manipulation and identifying the attitudes and practices that led to the ecological collapse of early nineteenth century England".<ref>Faten Hafez, [https://scholar.stjohns.edu/theses_dissertations/335/ "Representations of nature and ecological collapse in the novels of Jane Austen, Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick"], St John's University, 2021</ref> Susan Rowland's article "The 'Real Work': Ecocritical Alchemy and Jane Austen's ''Sense and Sensibility''" studies the effects of alienation upon Edward Ferrars and Marianne Dashwood. Edward feels out of place in society because he lacks what Rowland calls "useful employment".<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Rowland|first=Susan|date=2013|title=The 'Real Work': Ecocritical Alchemy and Jane Austen's Sense an Sensibility.|journal=Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment|volume=20|issue=2|pages=318–322|doi=10.1093/isle/ist021}}</ref> His condition underlines the historical problem of labour in Western industrialised societies. Edward's alienation also represents "the progressive estrangement from nonhuman nature"<ref name=":5" /> in modern society as a whole, only resolved in his case by becoming a "pastor". Rowland argues that human culture estranges people from nature rather than returning them to it, serving merely through the fact of ownership to bolster their place in the social order. Marianne’s emotional estrangement begins as she is ripped from the aesthetic enjoyment of her home environment, although ultimately she finds a new identity by uniting with Colonel Brandon on his estate at Delaford.<ref name=":5" />