"Mr. Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs. Clay. They were in Milsom-street" (191).
According to the Wordpress done by "Jane Austen's World," "[f]or years the city thrived on the wealth of visitors who stayed for the Season. The affluent tourists rented houses and apartments and all the trappings that went with them; crockery and cutlery, silver-ware and ornaments, horses and carriages, servants and attendants. Prominent architects designed fine buildings[,] and the city grew. Milsom Street became one of the most prestigious shopping areas in the country."
LIT 4046 Romantic Literature: Jane Austen (PLNU) Dashboard
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Our study of Romantic Literature will focus on the writing of Jane Austen (1775-1817), whose life and work is situated Regency Period and so carries the cultural influences of both the Enlightenment and the Romantic Periods. As we closely read four of her novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Persuasion (1818), , we will work to recognize and analyze the presence of major cultural issues that characterize the rise of Romanticism however overt or unacknowledged they may appear. Key issues will include the rise of democracy as expressed in Austen's consideration of women's lives and choices especially in relation to marriage and security; the laws governing inheritance and men's roles in maintenance of estates and wealth; the spectres of the lost American Colonies, the French Revolution, and military life; the struggle to abolish the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire as well the gentry's complicity in the economics of slavery, the genres of social satire, comedy of manners, and the female bildungsroman.
In tandem with our focus on the primary literary texts, we will also explore historical sources, maps, literary criticism of Austen's work, and sociological, religious, and cultural sources.
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Colonel Brandon lives in Delaford in Dorset.
"It amused her to observe that all her friends seemed determined to send her to Delaford; -- a place, in which, of all others, she would now least chuse to visit, or wish to reside; for not only was it considered as her future home by her brother and Mrs. Jennings, but even Lucy, when they parted, gave her a pressing invitation to visit there" (311).
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Sense and Sensibility opens with the pivotal event of inheritance: Mr. Henry Dashwood is the legal inheritor of the Norland estate (located in Sussex). Norland Park is the house that Mrs. Dashwood must vacate after the...
moreAllenham is a fictional estate in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Allenham is located in Devonshire and is occupied by Mrs. Smith, the aunt to Mr. Willoughby. Mr. Willoughby, therefore, is the heir to Allenham. Marianne Dashwood and John Willoughby travel here while Mrs. Smith is not home in a scandalous move.
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility, edited by Kathleen Viola James-Cavan, Broadview Press, 2001.
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moreThis fictional location was the estate of Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy. Austen records the picturesque landscape of the estate located in Lyme Park in her description in Pride & Prejudice:
"They gradually ascended for half a mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of a valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills;—and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal, nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place where nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in her admiration; and at that moment she felt...
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