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Women owning property : the great lady in Jane Austen
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Dashwood, R J. (2016) Women owning property : the great lady in Jane Austen. In: Marinucci, Mimi, (ed.) Jane Austen and philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781442257092 (In Press)
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Abstract
After commenting on an inheritance received by their wealthy uncle, Mr Leigh-Perrot, in a letter to Cassandra, in July 1808, Jane Austen writes: “Indeed, I do not know where we are to get our Legacy - but we will keep a sharp look-out” (Le Faye 143). Plainly aware of her and Cassandra’s comparatively strained circumstances and of inequality not just within her own family but throughout society, Jane Austen reverses this disparity in her novels. Here, in her narrative economy, property less women are given a central position and propertied women become secondary characters. In contrast to the way Georgian genteel women have been represented by scholars of the period, the great ladies in Jane Austen are not portrayed as either creators of spaces, managers of their property, or socially conscientious members of their community. Instead, they share various negative characteristics, with most of them being described as despotic and arrogant. The exception to this is the heroine of Emma, in which the future proprietor is central to the narrative. Presented as a potentially tyrannical great lady who does not contribute to the improvement of her community, Emma must reform herself in order to escape this destiny.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||
Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781442257092 | ||||||
Book Title: | Jane Austen and philosophy | ||||||
Editor: | Marinucci, Mimi | ||||||
Official Date: | November 2016 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
Description: | Author now publishing under name Rita J. Dashwood |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 March 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 March 2019 | ||||||
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