Women and `Value´ in Jane Austen´s Novels: Settling, Speculating and Superfluity
Lynda A. Hall
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Hardback. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 437.
Jane Austen's minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen's minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen's minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and ... Read more
Jane Austen's minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen's minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen's minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319507354
SKU
V9783319507354
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99-15
About Lynda A. Hall
Lynda A. Hall is Assistant Professor of English at Chapman University, California, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University and teaches courses in Jane Austen, the English Gothic novel, literature and terror. She has published several papers about Austen and has spoken at regional, national, and international conferences.
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