ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture : History of English Literature-Jan.19 "Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility"

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Gentry family (middling landowners not nobility, relations of petty nobility; knights) father and brother in the clergy, lived with her family in country/cathedral towns. Relatively conservative social value (vs. wollstonecraft) writes out of her world, lack of privacy, cramped. The prevalence of money, wealth, status, marriage. Women"s most important decision is who to marry reflected in. Themes: women"s conduct: sense versus sensibility, education and reading, marriages, conversation, and its antithesis, gossip subject of analysis, money versus land. Novels reflect the world of certain time period, from a personal perspective. The perplexity of life not solutions, but the opening of problems. Show ordinary people in daily life , exploring daily social life and manners. Draw on other genres (theatre, newspapers) [mini stories within stories] Didactic: tech us how to read the world (often those geared to youth). Sense of a young woman, trying to figure out what is going on in the hearts and mind of the men she interacts with.

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