scholarly journals Jane Austen's View on the Industrial Revolution in Pride and Prejudice

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Aralia Heaverly ◽  
Elisabeth Ngestirosa EWK
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
British Society ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
The Town

This study dismantles Jane Austen’s view in Pride and Prejudice novel triggered by the social systems in British society. The society influenced by the phenomena of the industrial revolution in England in the late eighteenth century revealed the social system. This study aims to find out how Jane Austen views the revolution of the industry in British society. By having the focus on the sociology of literature, this study applies Lucien Goldman’s genetic structuralism. By the dialectical method, the study found that in Austen’s view the landed gentry system and inheritance system was adopted to measure the social class among the societies. Jane Austen thought the inheritance system as the fallacious practice in the society as the economic condition motivated British parents to apply matchmaking for their children to get a better life. Jane Austen views that the industrial revolution plays an important role in forming social occupation at that time. The working-class condition leads them to work in the town, while the upper-class society tends to open some businesses by doing trade at the town. The rest group of middle class tends to work and dedicate themselves to the rich people. Finally, Jane Austen puts her view toward the society in Pride and Prejudice.Keywords: author, class, genetic structuralism, the industrial revolution, view

scholarly journals The Reflection of Regency Gentleman in Pride and Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-218
Author(s):  
Andi Febriana Tamrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Behavior

This study is aimed to present the nature of gentleman in the Regency era as reflected in the selected novels of Jane Austen, entitled Pride and Prejudice and Emma. The men who are categorized as gentleman are shifted over the years. In the time before Industrial Revolution, the term “gentleman” belongs to nobility class, gentry or to men who did not use their own hands to work. However, after the Victorian era, the “gentleman” covers several terms. These are the army, clergy, and even for the merchants. The social class and wealth are the prominent factors that cause the changing of this pattern. Nevertheless, Austen’s concept of gentleman in her two novels is referred mostly by the virtue and behavior.

Book Reviews: Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics, Ideology and Cultural Production, Injustice—The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt, Schooling in Decline, the Restructuring of Social & Political Theory, Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858–82, Sociology and Psychology, Essays, the Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism, Fictions and Ceremonies: Representations of Popular Experience, the Social Construction of Mind: Studies in Ethnomethodology and Linguistic Philosophy, a Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1850, Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in 19th Century England, the Social Theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Cities Unlimited, Thrillers: Genisis and Structure of a Popular Genre, Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory, Action Theory and the Human Condition, Contemporary Society and the Growth of Leisure, the Child and Death, Who Divorces, Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English, Classes, Strata and Power

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-214
Author(s):  
Robert Dingwall ◽  
David Chaney ◽  
Athar Hussain ◽  
M. D. Shipman ◽  
Diana Leat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
British English ◽  
English Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases

scholarly journals SOCIAL CLASS IN BRITISH SOCIETY IN JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Andrea Putri ◽  
Syamsul Bahri ◽  
Rita Suswati
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study deals with social class in British society in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.  The objectives of this study were to find out the impacts of social class toward british society based on the novel Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and to describe  social class reflected toward british society in that novel. The study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were dialogues and narration in Pride and Prejudice novel. The analysis of this study was based on Marxist’s concept (1995:25). The findings of this study were (1) two impacts of social class toward british society found in Pride and Prejudice novel, they were pride and prejudice (2) three types of social classes which were reflected, such as power, wealth, and status. 

Gregory King and the Social Structure of pre-industrial England

1977 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 41-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social History ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Post War

Despite the rich and exciting work of recent years, the social history of England between the Restoration and the Industrial Revolution still bears something of a hangdog look, scarcely war-ranting, as yet, the cosmic conclusions and ferocious controversies to which students of early Stuart and early nineteenth-century society have grown accustomed. Yet, thanks to the work of one remarkable Englishman, who was born in 1648 and died in 1712, there is one aspect of this pre-industrial period—its social structure—on which we are all happy to pontificate. Gregory King's table of ranks and degrees, on which in the last resort so much of this confidence rests, has now acquired a unique cachet. The continual reproduction in post-war textbooks of this famous document, which we think of as King's ‘social table’ but which he described as his ‘Scheme of the Income and Expense of the Several Famillies of England’, is just the most obvious symptom of its dominant historiographical influence.

The Social Causes of the British Industrial Revolution

1968 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 123-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Perkin
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
British Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Causes

‘It is not more than seventy or eighty years since,’ wrote ‘A Member of the Manchester Athenaeum’ in 1844, ‘that a few humble mechanics in Lanarkshire, distinguished by scarcely anything more than mechanical ingenuity and perseverance of character, succeeded in forming a few, but important mechanical combinations, the effect of which has been to revolutionize the whole of British society, and to influence, in a marked degree, the progress of civilization in every quarter of the globe.’

scholarly journals Sighing for a Soldier: Jane Austen and Military Pride and Prejudice

2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Regular Army

This essay is a study of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) in the context of the social and political debates and scandals surrounding the militia and the regular army in England in the period from 1790 to 1813. I argue that Austen's novel contains a vein of reference to these debates, and that in portraying Wickham she was making a detailed commentary on the new culture of social and sexual mobility that the militia spread across the nation. I argue further that Austen's critique of the militia and its habits drew her into alliance - on this issue at least - with the Whig and radical writers and campaigners whom she is normally thought to have opposed: Cobbett, Leigh Hunt, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. In conclusion, I suggest that the militia helped Austen formulate her discriminating account of the changing gender roles and sexual mores of the Regency period.

Zagubione w Austen: Duma i uprzedzenie w postmodernistycznej odsłonie – między parodią a nostalgią

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2 (465)) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Original Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Romance Convention ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich

The article analyses an ITV series Lost in Austen (2008), directed by Dan Zeff, as an example of postmodern play with Pride and Prejudice. Moving the contemporary heroine to the imaginary, textual sphere, the movie compares the reality of the 19th and the 21st century, emphasizing the visibly different positions of women. It not only “rewrites” the course of events, but also makes the tensions (which were previously silenced by the romance convention) more dynamic. Oscillating between the parody and nostalgia, Lost in Austen both continues and enriches Pride and Prejudice. Playful engagement with the original novel is the principal theme and motif of the series, but also the subject of its parodistic criticism. Lost in Austen engages both with the novel and with its 20th century reception. Moreover, by creative reinterpretation of the writer’s text, it shows the changing paradigms of the 20th century criticism and the cultural and literary theory. Highlighting the aspects of the novel important for the contemporary era, it initiates an interesting dialogue with the rich intertextual tapestry that contemporary popular culture weaved around Jane Austen.

scholarly journals Fuelling the Machine: Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
British Society ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ways Of Life

Some have contested the Industrial Revolution’s status as a climactic event bringing social and political upheaval. However, the abolishment of slavery, the destruction of traditional ways of life, and the rise of class-consciousness confirm the climactic nature of this period. In analyzing the dramatic changes in the social organization of British society, this paper aims to reclaim the title of the Industrial Revolution as just that--revolutionary.

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