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British Progress & Pride and Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice (1813)…
British Progress &
Pride and Prejudice
The Time
the 17th C.
GB expands through colonisation
largest navy in the world
East India Trading Company
spices =>
$
Colonisation of the Americas (1607-1775)
Royal African Company (1672)
Slaves
British Life
Civil War (1642-60)
Politic and religion
Urban growth
--> Economic growth
--> population growth
--> increased literacy
--> intellectual culture
--> scientific method -->
the 19th C.
Romantic movement
Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley (the husband), Robinson
Austen & the regency novel
Victorian England
England's colonial high point
Great Exhibition of 1851
Gender roles highly solidified
Moderisation of life
train transport
industrialisation
capitalism
Texts
Jonathan Swift
'A Modest Proposal' (1729)
satire
a pamphlet
Macauley
'Evidence of Progress'
Counter to the social journalism
The Children's Employment Commission
social journalism
Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
Why?
literary qualities
narrative innovations
the history of the novel
What kind of story?
classic love story
bildungsroman
- coming-of-age story
arguments
Elizabeth's development
Pride decreases
Already a woman at the start?
linked to Darcy's development
re-evaluates 1st impressions
realistic novel narrated in the 3rd pers, omnicient; country setting
epistolary
allows character insight
letters and diary novel
groundbreaking technique
Free indirect discourse
/ speech
narrator speaks as though inside the head of a character - without quotation marks
funny story
Major themes
marrige
rank and class
fathers and daughters (family)
appearances vs. realities
social opportunities for women
Austen: a feminist?
background: major European war (Napoleon War)
The Bennet's Marriage
professional: divided duties
distance [disinterestedness]
something changed
father/daughter
lack of respect
Wickham: a warning?
don't trust good looks and charm
a product of his surroundings?
an opportunist
his attempt to marry Georgiana: is this different than Charlotte?
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Mr. Collins: Wonderful and condescending (good) - a lickspittle
Wickham: pompous
Elizabeth standing up to her
happens more than once, also w/ Darcy
respect must go both ways
Austen's father characters
disinterested
Elizabeth is his (clear) favorite
not present
he jokes about serious matters
The Novel
seen as morally corrupting in its early beginnings
compared to drama and poetry
beginnings: fiction masqueraded as travel writing
e.g.
Gulliver's Travels
by J. Swift
Novel's elevated status (1840-1900)
realism --> impressionism --> regionalism --> bitter social critique