ATS1903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jane Austen, Dysfunctional Family, Mary Musgrove
14 May 2018
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Persuasion
• Had to write according to structure due to 'technology' restrictions
• Climatic ending at the end of volume one to prompt readers onto the next
• Had to be purchased as a set
• But how far one read was up to the reader
Key Aspects of Novel
Plot and subplots
• Akin to Cinderella
• Fairly straightforward plot
• Basic but complex story (like a squeal to an unwritten novel)
• Takes a basic love story and makes it more meaningful and interesting
Charaters: flat ad rouded; iteratio etee haraters; stok haraters
• Flat; characters that don't change much i.e. (the one who is vain and selfish)
• Round; more natural, change, character development i.e. Anne
• Sudden realisation that Anne is the main character
• Wentworth; unsure of who is really is, cannot say if he is round or flat due to his complicated
history with Anne, his evaluation of the characters make us question our impression thus far
(refer to the end of chapter 7 - page 53)
• Creates uncertainty over character's true face
• How characters interact with each other
• Stock characters; stereotypes, cliché characters
Gere: roae, oed, ig house oel
• Persuasion looks like a romance novel
• Readers expect the novel to be like a 'romance' novel (marriage and happily ever after)
• Expect stock characters like innocent young maidens and young bachelors
Setting: social groups, restrictions on movement
• Setting determines what happens most of the time
Themes: regret, ageing, social change, nature as consolatory/restorative
• 'bloom' as in a flower blooming (natural imagery)
Historical factors:
• circumstances of production
• historical setting of story (war, Romanticism)
• historical concerns of author and reader
• iograph: eets i authors o life
o She hated Bath but included it in every novel she wrote (i.e. what does she want the
readers to interpret this place as? - this type is not restricting)
o Restricting to use this type of evidence as it limits imagination (i.e. Austen also once
called off an engagement)
Narrative: how the story is told (including dialogue)
• oisiet all-koig or first-perso?
• reliale or ureliale?
Narrative
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Document Summary
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