Reinvesting nieces: Mansfield Park and the economics of endogomy
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Mansfield Park, a novel by Jane Austen, is mainly based on the primacy of nuclear family and metaphorical power of nuclear family terminology. The main event in the novel is the move of a character Fanny from niece to daughter and later to wife, rewriting Fanny's economic history in affective and domestic manner because of supply and demand. Fanny's transition to wife creates a solution to the conflict between using internal resources through incest and bringing in a stranger, since Fanny is a family member without truly being a family member.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1995
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The look, the body, and the heroine: a feminist-narratological reading of 'Persuasion.'
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An analysis of Jane Austen's novel, 'Persuasion,' is presented in which the contemporary model of a heroine is broken and a new concept of an unfading heroine is presented. Anne Elliot, the main protagonist, has the feminine power of looking and interpreting looks. It is through looking that insights are made about the other characters and that an idea of the protagonist is derived. The whole novel is presented in the central consciousness of Anne Elliot.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1992
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"A great talker upon little matters": Trivializing the everyday in 'Emma'
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The manner in which the dichotomy of detail and abstraction, which shapes the discourse on the everyday, functions in fictional accounts is examined in the light of Miss Bates, the character most concerned with detail in Jane Austen's 'Emma'. Trivializing Miss Bates represents a transcendence of the quotidian and renders the minute and mundane details the medium of the real in 'Emma'.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2005
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