EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jane Austen, Juvenilia, Industrial Revolution
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Known for her novels, not her poetry (juvenilia) She"s female, does not get a university education, and is the youngest. She liked to read sentimental and gothic novels, though she liked to make fun of them in parody. Another brother was a naval officer (very conservative) We see a look backwards to the agrarian english past. A lot of drawing room discussions; talk generates plot. In a masculine style you would expect action to move the plot forward. Her years of publication activity from the last 5 years of the 18th century up to her death. She is called an au cheval writer (on horseback) one leg in one century and one in the other. The influences and the interesting silences we find in her work. England was moving from agriculture society to the industrial revolution. The age of enlightenment; philosophy and introspection -- the nobility copied the interests of the king george iii.
