JAusten.ppt
- 2. Jane Austen: 1775-1817 wrote “domestic” fiction--all her novels are only concerned with a small circle of friends believed one should write only from one’s experience, thus she never writes a scene set outside England her plots concern themselves with women and their choices of mates--believed choice of whether and whom to marry crucial to women saw marriage as the foundation of social order
- 3. Austen’s literary forerunners 18th century 1st person—autobiographical novels ◦ Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe 18th century epistolary (in letters) novels ◦ Samuel Richardson’s Pamela 18th century 3rd person—limited omniscient novels ◦ most novels by women novelists, ie. Frances Burney, that focused the omniscient narrator only on the heroine 18th century 3rd person—omniscient novels ◦ Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
- 4. Point of View in Austen Not 1st person autobiographical ◦ too focused on one individual ◦ too knowing of that person’s thoughts Not 3rd person omniscient ◦ narrative voice misses out on lots of information Not exactly 3rd person limited omniscient ◦ the narrative voice is not fixed on one person Free indirect style—a floating 3rd person limited omniscient narrator
- 5. Highbury and its environs Randalls M/M Weston (Frank Churchill) Hartfield Emma Mr. Woodhouse Donwell Abbey George Knightley flat above store Mrs. Bates Miss Bates (Jane Fairfax) the Vicarage Mr. Elton (Mrs. Elton) the school Mrs. Goddard Harriet Smith townhouse The Coles Abbey Mill Farm Mrs. Martin Elizabeth Martin Robert Martin townhouse The Coxes