ENG 632 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Upper Class, Aristocracy, Jane Austen

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 632
• Professor: Dennis Denisoff

Document Summary

Moves away from 18th century sensibility to 19th century realism. Novel of manners: a realistic novel dominated by social customs, manners, and habits of a particular social class at a particular time in history; characters puppets of a large set of societal expectations. Satire: the act of derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement, contempt, and scorn: lizzy and mr. bennet do this the most. Industrialization leads to a need for more trades after people move to urban centres.