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Romancing Jane AustenMansfield Park: ‘she does not like to act’

Romancing Jane Austen: Mansfield Park: ‘she does not like to act’ [It has already been noted by Michael Giffin that Austen works within a paradigm of orthodox Georgian Anglican ideology, representing ‘soteria’ in a way that situates her characters and their problems in relation to the possibility of salvation in a fallen world.332 I would extend that argument to claim that Austen’s narratives mediate between the apparently incommensurable domains of material and ideational worlds, refigured in the more abstract structuring principles of romance finally overcoming the resistance of realism, and figuring in turn the salvational logic of feminine wish-fulfilment; incrementally mediating the fallen with the paradisal. Some literary heroine. And the ‘persistence’ of Austen in the twenty first century suggests that there remains a desire for just such a ‘transformation of the reader’s subjective attitudes’.333 Austen writes explicitly of the possibility of salvation in concrete terms of particular, still recognizable, incarnations of feminine desires and the conditions for overcoming their obstacles. Since the abstractions of desire that she captures transfer across starkly different historical and cultural conditions, her work remains a vehicle for this abstract salvational equation which shapes the narrative form.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Romancing Jane AustenMansfield Park: ‘she does not like to act’

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Tauchert, Ashley
Romancing Jane Austen — Oct 10, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
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978-1-349-54635-0
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93 –110
DOI
10.1057/9780230599697_5
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Abstract

[It has already been noted by Michael Giffin that Austen works within a paradigm of orthodox Georgian Anglican ideology, representing ‘soteria’ in a way that situates her characters and their problems in relation to the possibility of salvation in a fallen world.332 I would extend that argument to claim that Austen’s narratives mediate between the apparently incommensurable domains of material and ideational worlds, refigured in the more abstract structuring principles of romance finally overcoming the resistance of realism, and figuring in turn the salvational logic of feminine wish-fulfilment; incrementally mediating the fallen with the paradisal. Some literary heroine. And the ‘persistence’ of Austen in the twenty first century suggests that there remains a desire for just such a ‘transformation of the reader’s subjective attitudes’.333 Austen writes explicitly of the possibility of salvation in concrete terms of particular, still recognizable, incarnations of feminine desires and the conditions for overcoming their obstacles. Since the abstractions of desire that she captures transfer across starkly different historical and cultural conditions, her work remains a vehicle for this abstract salvational equation which shapes the narrative form.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Happy Ending; Providential Identity; Passive Agency; Heterosexual Marriage; Birth Family

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