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    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion
    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion
    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion
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    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion

    By TULASI ACHARYA

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    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion is my hypothesis that I have proved using the tools of New Historicism. New Historicism has become significant in the criticism of Medieval and nineteenth-century British and American literature, and it is making its way into the criticism of modernist literature and eighteenth-century literature as well. The role of New Historicists is to create a more cultural or anthropological criticism, one that is conscious of its own status as interpretation and intent upon understanding literature as part of a system of signs that constitute a given culture. Literary criticism and cultural critique are integrated, with the critic's role being to investigate both the social presence of the literary text in the world and the social presence of the world in the literary text. I have highlighted the social rules, codes, or norms articulated within the text because a critical reader must acknowledge their own predispositions and cultural biases while exploring how the multiple voices within a text are balanced, reconciled, or subverted. With a concern for questions of power and culture, I have demonstrated how Jane Austen is guided by the ideology of class-consciousness. To prove my thesis, I have examined the multiple voices of the characters, provided a detailed description of the text, and delved into the political and social situations as essential components.-- Tulasi Acharya 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMantra Publication
    Release dateAug 19, 2023
    ISBN9798223959793
    Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion
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    TULASI ACHARYA

    Tulasi Acharya was born in the South Asian country of Nepal. He completed his Master's degree in English in Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. He also taught English and Journalism courses at colleges in Nepal, where he authored textbooks on mass communication and journalism. A prolific writer, Acharya published short stories, poems, and articles in Nepali journals, national newspapers and online. He moved to the United States in 2008 to pursue a Master's degree in creative writing. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University, USA. Originally from Nepal, Acharya has a Master's degree in Women's Studies and a degree in Professional Writing. His research interests are disability, policy, gender and sexuality, marginalized narratives, critical theory, and post colonialism, including creative writing and translation.

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      Class Rigidity in Jane Austen's Persuasion - TULASI ACHARYA

      Abstract

      CLASS RIGIDITY IN JANE Austen’s Persuasion is my hypothesis that I have proved using the tools of New Historicism. New Historicism has become significant in the criticism of Medieval and nineteenth-century British and American literature, and it is making its way into the criticism of modernist literature and eighteenth-century literature as well. The role of New Historicists is to create a more cultural or anthropological criticism, one that is conscious of its own status as interpretation and intent upon understanding literature as part of a system of signs that constitute a given culture. Literary criticism and cultural critique are integrated, with the critic’s role being to investigate both the social presence of the literary text in the world and the social presence of the world in the literary text. I have highlighted the social rules, codes, or norms articulated within the text because a critical reader must acknowledge their own predispositions and cultural biases while exploring how the multiple voices within a text are balanced, reconciled, or subverted. With a concern for questions of power and culture, I have demonstrated how Jane Austen is guided by the ideology of class-consciousness. To prove my thesis, I have examined the multiple voices of the characters, provided a detailed description of the text, and delved into the political and social situations as essential components.

      General Introduction

      THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES on Jane Austen’s novel, persuasion. It tries to analyze Austen’s class rigidity and how she falls under the traps of social structure of Victorian society. However, she tries to escape from it.

      Persuasion was posthumously published in 1818. It was written between August 1815 and August 1816. During this time, Jane Austen began to suffer from the illness, which would, in july of 1817 and at the age of 42, take her life. She did not live to see its publication, which occurred in the year following her death.

      Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published together by Miss Austen’s brother, Henry Austen, who had long been a champion of his sister’s work. It was he who chose the title for this novel, and unfortunately, we can never know what Jane herself might have named it. The novel covers the pre-Victorian era thought. The persuasion was completed in the beginning of the 19th century. M.H. Abraham writes:

      The beginning of the Victorian period is frequently dated 1830, or alternatively 1832; it extends to the death of Victoria in 1901. Much writing of the period whether imaginative or didactic, in verse or in prose dealt with or reflected the pressing social, economic religious, and intellectual issues and problems of that era (153).

      While Jane Austen is often associated with the Romantic period, David Daiches in his Volume III of A History of English Literature points out that Austen's novels establish a relationship between social conventions and individual temperament. From the time of Richardson until the early 20th century, the prose patterns of English fiction were based on the shared view held by both readers and writers: what was significant was the alteration of a social relationship, encompassing themes such as love followed by marriage, quarreling and reconciliation, as well as the acquisition or loss of money or social status.

      The class-consciousness depicted in Austen's novels from the very beginning, the emphasis on social and financial status, and the utilization of shifts in class – either upward or downward – to reflect critical developments in both character and fortune, all indicate the middle-class origin of this literary form. The novel leans towards realism and contemporaneity in the sense that it deals with individuals inhabiting the social world familiar to the writer.

      Austen’s ironic awareness of the tensions between spontaneity and convention and between the claims of personal morality and those of social and economic propriety, her polished and controlled wit, and beneath all her steady lies moral apprehension of the nature of human relationship, produced some of the greatest novels in English.

      The world presented to us in her books is essentially that of the late 18th and 19th centuries, reflecting its habits, tastes, and appearance. We encounter the crystalline precision of her writing style, with beautifully poised sentences and paragraphs, as well as the skillful arrangement of dialogue and incidents.

      Austen has the ability to provide readers with a sense of a solidly grounded social world. It's a world where the adjustment of personal relationships stands as the most interesting and significant of challenges, a world in which individuals, no matter how sensitive or introspective they might be, are part of a communal pattern. Her writing exhibits delicacy, precision, and a keen, ironic insight. Her talent lies in exploring those facets of human emotion and behavior that are closely intertwined with the social and economic framework that casts a large shadow over most people's lives.

      Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, in Stevenson, located in the

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