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The Satire of Jane Austen
… high rank among the writers of comedy. Jane Austen sweetened the world's fiction by her contributions, while her censoring did much to revolutionize the novel of her day. Calmly, placidly and quietly she mingled comedy and realism. At a first perusal of her books the reader may think that she …
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The Romance of Social Problems in Austen and Gaskell
… with the social problem-novel plots in Jane Austen's <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic> and Elizabeth Gaskell's <italic>North and South</italic>. After a discussion of classical romance conventions in the first chapter, I will employ a close reading of <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic> …
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Deception and Undeception in the Novels of Jane Austen
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„Án titils.“ Jöðrun og þöggun í Persuasion eftir Jane Austen
… Persuasion sem var eitt síðasta verk Jane Austen með hliðsjón af kenningu Edwins Ardener um jöðrun og þöggun kvenna og kenningu Michel Foucaults um alsæi. Bókin fjallar um Anne Elliot 27 ára ógifta barónsdóttir sem er við það að pipra. Eftir að móðir hennar lést tók hún að sér flestar þær …
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… character transformation in her heroines, Jane Austen uses marriage plot novels to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their characters as …
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey : the education of Catherine Morland.
This thesis argues for a view of Austen's Northanger Abbey as the story of Catherine Morland, a young woman in search of an education. While Catherine's formal training has been nominal before the novel's beginning, the heroine attains various types of education in a short span of time, thereafter. …
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
… Frances Burney’s Cecilia and The Wanderer, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, and Geraldine Jewsbury’s The Half Sisters interrogate and transform. Like other heroine types, the psychosomatic heroine reveals sociocultural discourses that speak to what it means to be a woman in the …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
… women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private dichotomy, this project argues that women writers …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… in the works of women novelists such as Jane Austen. My final chapter shows how Austen analyzes Wollstonecraft's rhetoric to better explain how feminist goals of increased understanding and moral agency might be attained.
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen reveal similar treatments of the sexuality of their characters. The implementation of key Gothic elements—such as the castle, tyrannical father, and distressed damsel—serve to propel the novels’ questioning of the patriarchal system, the …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… toward the manners economy they portray. In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, social economies are controlled by an invisible hand that can be trusted to reward deserving economic agents, and punish the undeserving. William Thackeray's Vanity Fair shows how social economies can be impacted by …
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Marital love in Jane Austen: a Peircean analysis of Lady Susan and Pride and Prejudice
One way to view Jane Austen’s novels is as an exploration of her ideals for love and marriage, at least her conception of their possibilities within the culture of which she was a part. Because her stories generally present a series of married or courting character couples, they lend themselves …
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A critical examination of three Jane Austen fragments and their bearing on her completed novels
… the novels have been exhaustively treated, Jane Austen's fragments have suffered neglect. My thesis aims to help remedy this lack of critical emphasis. I examine three pieces from the early, middle and late periods of her life - Catherine or the Bower (1792), The Watsons (1804) and Sanditon …
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"I always cure you when I come": The Caregiver Figure in the Novels of Jane Austen
… Emma Woodhouse and Anne Elliot in three Jane Austen novels. After reviewing the expected limitations that caregiving imposes on these women, I ultimately propose that Austen posits that caregiving can subversively act as an advantage to women, especially in regards to achieving greater …
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