Death and the Concept of Woman's Value in the Novels of Jane Austen
Description:
Jane Austen sprinkles deaths throughout her novels as plot devices and character indicators, but she does not tackle death directly. Yet death pervades her novels, in a subtle yet brutal way, in the lives of her female characters. Austen reveals that death was the definition and the destiny of women; it was the driving force behind the social and economic constructs that ruled the eighteenth-century woman's life, manifested in language, literature, religion, art, and even in a woman's doubts ab…
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Date:
December 1996
Creator:
Moring, Meg Montgomery, 1961-
Partner:
UNT Libraries