ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jane Austen, Egalitarianism, French Revolution
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Austen sets things up in such a way that the letters aren"t read by the: we read them as ready by another party (elinor and willoughby"s. Letter is being read by people to whom it is not addressed to diverted from its intended address. Elinor is on the side of f. i. d opposed epistolary heroine: a post-epistolary heroine, we access to her thoughts through narrator rather than her. The quiz last week asks to find the contrast between elinor and marianne when writing letters. Elinor writes proper" letters to her mother. Epistolary fiction disappears or is only brought back for special effects. We feel more intimate with a heroine that writes letters after the 18th century: austen includes her letters to get a sense of marianne that isn"t blocked or limited. Insufficient privacy evident to everyone that she"s writing to. Letter form is also associated with ungoverned passion.
