Jane Austen and the Peerage

Greene, Diana

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“…Janine Barchas's (2012) Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity aims to “explore how wider notions of English history might further enrich an interpretation of Austen's method” (p. 4). She follows up on Donald Greene's 1953 discovery of Austen's use of names of great families in England by researching the Strafford branch of the esteemed Wentworth family—which includes the names Fitzwilliam, Darcy, Vernon, and Watson, as well as a grand Yorkshire estate called Wentworth Woodhouse—and she narrows the date for the writing of Lady Susan , which she sees as playing upon an inheritance struggle in that noble family, to just after 1802. She examines what the name Allen in Northanger Abbey might have meant when Austen was first drafting the novel and discovers that “in the late 1790s, in particular, the identity of the heir to the Allen fortune became suddenly complicated and increasingly vague” (p. 85) as lines of inheritance shifted.…”

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New directions in Jane Austen studies

Greenfield

Troost

2022

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This essay identifies emerging trends in Jane Austen scholarship published between 2010 and 2020, with a focus on monographs and edited collections. In recent work examining Austen through contemporary theoretical and critical lenses, the following new topics have been central: material culture, animal studies, masculinity, place, and celebrity. The last of these includes Austen's use of Regency celebrities in her novels and her connections with other women writers.Studies of the parallels between her and Shakespeare's rises to fame have also surged. Connected to the interest in celebrity is the explosion of fan-culture studies: Austen is now a multimedia superstar with wide appeal. This expansion of audience has meant a shift in the style of much scholarly writing on Austen as books try to cater to both academic and non-academic markets.

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Section: Celebrity Source Studiesmentioning

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New directions in Jane Austen studies

Greenfield

Troost

2022

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“…The result there are lots of rich people take over their lands and mostly the people who have power are owning the lands in most villages. According to Greene (1953) in his paper entitled Jane Austen and Peerage stated that during Jane Austen's life she was close to some people who are rich and called the House of Lord. So, because of the existence of those landowners, it gives attention to Austen to create the use of gentry system inside of Pride and Prejudice story.…”

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Jane Austen's View on the Industrial Revolution in Pride and Prejudice

Heaverly¹,

Ewk²

2020

LLJ

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This study dismantles Jane Austen’s view in Pride and Prejudice novel triggered by the social systems in British society. The society influenced by the phenomena of the industrial revolution in England in the late eighteenth century revealed the social system. This study aims to find out how Jane Austen views the revolution of the industry in British society. By having the focus on the sociology of literature, this study applies Lucien Goldman’s genetic structuralism. By the dialectical method, the study found that in Austen’s view the landed gentry system and inheritance system was adopted to measure the social class among the societies. Jane Austen thought the inheritance system as the fallacious practice in the society as the economic condition motivated British parents to apply matchmaking for their children to get a better life. Jane Austen views that the industrial revolution plays an important role in forming social occupation at that time. The working-class condition leads them to work in the town, while the upper-class society tends to open some businesses by doing trade at the town. The rest group of middle class tends to work and dedicate themselves to the rich people. Finally, Jane Austen puts her view toward the society in Pride and Prejudice.Keywords: author, class, genetic structuralism, the industrial revolution, view

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“…Her favorite characters are indifferent to the peerage (cf. Greene 1953); 26 only the unredeemed Sir Walter Elliot and the social climber Mrs. Ferrars are presented as actively seeking "connections" with the aristocracy. Ideally, people belonging to the stratum ranging from the Bertrams of Mansfield Park to the Bennets of Pride and Prejudice were in a better position to effect a convergence of the genteel sense of responsibility with the values of the peaceable culture, especially since resident landownership imposed practical duties and counteracted the restlessness of unlimited leisure.…”

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Towards the ethics of form in fiction: narratives of cultural remission

Toker¹

2010

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Jane Austen and the Peerage

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New directions in Jane Austen studies

New directions in Jane Austen studies

Jane Austen's View on the Industrial Revolution in Pride and Prejudice

Towards the ethics of form in fiction: narratives of cultural remission

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