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Women and 'Value' in Jane Austen's Novels - Settling, Speculating and Superfluity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Women and 'Value' in Jane Austen's Novels - Settling, Speculating and Superfluity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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 predators, or become superfluous women who have left the
marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence.
These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the
marriage market economy, exposing women's limited choices. This
book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of
a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective
individualism.
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