"Improved Countenance": Capitalist Relations in Mansfield Park

Meliora ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Edwards
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Meaning Structure ◽  
Market Shaping

There is no neat division between the economic and the domestic. Not only are they connected, but their meaning, structure, and value are decidedly conditioned by one another. Yet, since it is capitalism’s nature to conceal exploitation, domesticity becomes outwardly coded as the domain of tradition, despite the productive forces of the market shaping domesticity through the process of social reproduction. Lise Vogel asks how the worker is produced in capitalism, analyzing the peculiar way women are exploited in this process. Using Vogel’s theory of labor and Marx’s analysis of commodity fetishism, this thesis analyzes Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park as a remarkable and salient example of capitalist relations invading and determining the realm of the domestic in the early 19th-century. At the beginning of the novel, Fanny Price, the protagonist of the novel, is intimately involved in social reproduction, but when she is displaced to the extravagant halls of Mansfield Park, her uncle’s estate, she enters the commodity sphere and becomes an ideological weapon, emptied out of her original and unique value to fervently justify the ruling class's power. 

scholarly journals “I cannot act!”: Fanny’s “Inaction” in the Economic Ideology Driving Mansfield Park

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Inherent Value ◽  
Economic Ideology ◽  
Profit Value ◽  
British Culture

In early 19th century British culture, an ideology founded on economics permeates one of society’s most private affairs marriage between two individuals. In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, the characters become a type of currency to be exchanged through marriage in order for others to gain power and wealth. Fanny Price, subjected to this objectification, comes to realize the inherent value that she possesses as a woman. Once she is given agency in the novel, she is able to live beyond the ideology of the novel. Her marriage allows her to recognize herself as being equal to her husband, Edmund Bertram, and join him in ownership of their property. Fanny and Edmund represent a new ideology that is founded on love and equality, rather than profit value. 

scholarly journals Mother Behavior to Their Daughters As Seen in ''Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women"

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-625
Author(s):  
Fitri Arniati ◽  
Muhammad Darwis ◽  
Nurhayati Rahman ◽  
Fathu Rahman
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Little Women ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Right

This research is to study about the mother behavior to their daughters as seen in "Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women". The mother behavior to their daughters show the different way of women as a mother in bringing up their children according to their social and condition at the time. The data were taken from two novels entitled "pride and prejudice" and "little women" is the topic of the study. The  women held in the early 19th century and the late 19th century was described as one that belonged in the home as a wife and mother, and that should marry a man who can support their family. Also throughout the novel women's role in society was described as one that is to be accomplished in household  chore and those of entertainment, such as singing  and playing music. The role of women in society was a major theme throughout the novel "Pride and Prejudice" and "Little Women" The method used in this research  is a study of comparative literature to analyze mother behavior especially for Mrs. Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, These women have similarities and different behavior in find the right mate for their daughters. This study shows that every woman has characteristics in caring for their children and paying attention to the survival of their children.

Women’s Fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimiyo Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Women's Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Charlotte Smith ◽  
Mary Robinson ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Charlotte Dacre ◽  
Susan Ferrier ◽  
Women's Novels

This essay gives an overview of women’s fiction published between the late 18th and early 19th century, focusing on their interest in sensibility, education, and marriage. Women’s novels during this period were very much influenced by the literary genre called the novel of sensibility, which celebrates emotional concepts such as sentiment, delicacy, and sensibility. In promoting education for women, many female novelists not only vindicated women’s capacity to reason, but also recommended moral feeling for others. Although Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Susan Ferrier believed that women should embrace reason, they knew that domestic affections were necessary. Affectionate ties or compassion are key to understanding the novels of Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. Possessing neither was detrimental to the happiness of heroines of this period, and this is typically observed in Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story (1791) – pursuing one’s desire without restraint would lead to self-destruction. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley were writing their novels when the radical movement connected to Mary Wollstonecraft’s assertion about the need for women’s education had subsided: excessive indulgence of emotions and sexual appetite were cautioned against in their novels. Although in the early 19th-century sexual transgressions were condemned, some novelists such as Charlotte Dacre explored the theme of women’s sexual freedom.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE 19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN COLONIALISM IN AFRICA, IN THE NOVEL “THINGS FALL APART” BY CHINUA ACHEBE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Afriliyani Piola ◽  
Happy Anastasia Usman
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

Things Fall Apart is a novel potrays the background of traditional life and primitive culture Ibo tribe in Umuofia, Nigeria, Africa and also the impact of European colonialism towards Africans’ society in the early 19th century. The research applies the qualitative method and it supported by the sociology of literature approach. The primary data are taken from the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Based on the analysis the researcher conducts, the impact of European colonialism in Africa which not only brings a positive impacts but also negative legacy. There are several points of the impact European colonialism in Africa : existence of christianity, existence of language, establishment regulation and contribution to development.

scholarly journals Struttura e narratore ne I Promessi Sposi di Alessandro Manzoni

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Aseel Samir ◽  
Rabie Salama
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Alessandro Manzoni ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
I Promessi Sposi ◽  
Italian Novel

In the early 19th century, the Italian literature did not have a mature novel, as is known today. The Italian novelist, Manzoni, and his masterpiece The Betrothed, set a solid basis for the contemporary Italian novel; thanks to its’ narrative characteristics that helped the novelist in achieving different reformative goals, woven stupendously with fictional, historical and realistic threads. The main purpose of this study is to apply an analytical and thematic approach on the structure and narrator of the novel. Furthermore, the research aims to distinguish the main artistic characteristics adopted from the European historical novel. The study then focuses on analyzing the function of the anonymous author’s fictional frame and how it created a diversity in the narrative levels. The research also highlights the importance of the omniscient narrator, the strong relations between the narrator and the narratee, the different narrative perspectives, and finally the polyphony: techniques that enhanced the realistic dimension of the novel.

The Kitajskaja grammatika (1835) and Bičurin’s ideas on the “mechanism” of Chinese between European and Chinese grammatical traditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Anna Di Toro
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Early 19Th Century

The main contribution of Bičurin in the field of Chinese language, the Kitajskaja grammatika (1835), is still quite understudied, even though it represents the first grammar of Chinese written in Russian. Through a rapid overview of some of the early grammars of Chinese written by European authors and the analysis of some sections of the book, in which the Russian sinologist expounds the mechanism of Chinese, the paper dwells on the original ideas on this language developed by the Russian sinologist, inspired both by European and Chinese grammatical traditions. A particular attention is devoted to Bičurin’s concept of “mental modification”, related to the linguistic ideas discussed in Europe in the early 19th century.

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