加载中…Jane Austen and the Tradition of the reformed Heroine
(2012-02-21 05:02:10)
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The Rise of the
Woman Novelist
From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
Jane Spencer
Basil Blackwell,UK 1986 p 225
Jane Austen and the Tradition of the reformed Heroine p
167-180
(R 21,Feb, 2012)
From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen
Jane Spencer
Basil Blackwell,UK 1986
Jane Austen and the Tradition of the reformed Heroine
(R 21,Feb, 2012)
Central to her work is the belief in women's
capacity for interllectual and moral growth that
new view of the tradition of conformity....Austen's
work,...give a new view of women, because within them, the picture
of the learning heroine, sketched in earlier reformed
coquette(卖弄风情的女子)
novels, is most fully and convincingly
developed.--p169
The stage seems set for a love growing out of the tutor-pupil relationship;but Edmund falls in love with Mary Crawford instead.Mary has all the vitality and wit fanny lacks, but none of her steady principles, and Austen's irony is directed against this mentor who so little understands the value of the mind he has helped to form that he falls for its opposite.---172
Edmund now needs Fanny's advice instead of the other way round, and with a fine irony Austen makes him both recognize the fact and refuse to follow it to its logical conclusion.---173
The tradition in the feminine didactic novel for rendering the heroine's thought-process in narrative reaches its highest degree of refinement here.We are inside Emma's consciousness for much of the narrative,...One of the pleasures of reading the novel is registering the irony against the heroine when she wilfully suppresses her own honest and intelligent reactions--175
Austen advocates self-knowledge and shows her heroines reaching it through introspection, but she also sees moral dangers in too much thought about the self.---p175-176
Emma,the heroine who learns to distrust her own mind,gives greater evidence of the heroine's 'thinking powers', and does more to establish complexity of female character in fiction.---177
Emma 'has a moral life as a man has a moral life'(Lionel Trilling, Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen 1957),but that she is the 1st character in English fiction, male or female, to have a moral life so richly created and yet ironically analysed.---177
Pride and
Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is very different
from the reformed coquette novels in which the hero is right and
the heroine wrong,but neither does it present the opposite extreme,
the ideal heroine who guides a man to morality.Darcy and Elizabeth
are equals, and each has sth to teach the other.--172Mansfield
Park
The relationship between hero and
heroine begins in the tradition of mentor and pupil:...Austen's
Edmund Bertram and Fanny Price grow up together.---p 172The stage seems set for a love growing out of the tutor-pupil relationship;but Edmund falls in love with Mary Crawford instead.Mary has all the vitality and wit fanny lacks, but none of her steady principles, and Austen's irony is directed against this mentor who so little understands the value of the mind he has helped to form that he falls for its opposite.---172
Edmund now needs Fanny's advice instead of the other way round, and with a fine irony Austen makes him both recognize the fact and refuse to follow it to its logical conclusion.---173
Emma
Reform has come from Emma
herself,and through Austen's portrayal of her interior monologue we
have witnessed the inner change.The tradition in the feminine didactic novel for rendering the heroine's thought-process in narrative reaches its highest degree of refinement here.We are inside Emma's consciousness for much of the narrative,...One of the pleasures of reading the novel is registering the irony against the heroine when she wilfully suppresses her own honest and intelligent reactions--175
Austen advocates self-knowledge and shows her heroines reaching it through introspection, but she also sees moral dangers in too much thought about the self.---p175-176
Emma,the heroine who learns to distrust her own mind,gives greater evidence of the heroine's 'thinking powers', and does more to establish complexity of female character in fiction.---177
Emma 'has a moral life as a man has a moral life'(Lionel Trilling, Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen 1957),but that she is the 1st character in English fiction, male or female, to have a moral life so richly created and yet ironically analysed.---177
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