In Character and Conflict in Jane Austen's Novels,Bernard J. Paris
offers an analysis of the protagonists in four of Jane Austen's
most popular novels. His analysis reveals them to be brilliant
mimetic creations who often break free of the formal and thematic
limitations placed upon them by Austen. Paris traces the powerful
tensions between form, theme, and mimesis in Mansfield Park, Emma,
Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion.Paris uses Northrop Frye's
theory of comic forms to analyze and describe the formal structure
of the novels, and Karen Horney's psychological theories to explore
the personalities and inner conflicts of the main characters. The
concluding chapter turns from the characters to their creator,
employing the Horneyan categories of self-effacing, detached, and
expansive personality types to interpret Jane Austen's own
personality.Readers of Jane Austen will find much that is new and
challenging in this study. It is one of the few books to recognize
and pay tribute to Jane Austen's genius in characterization. Anyone
who reads this book will come away with a new understanding of
Austen's heroines as imagined human beings and also with a deeper
feeling for the troubled humanity of the author herself.
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