Social Critique through Comedy - Frances Burney's 'Evelina' and Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
Cover of the book Social Critique through Comedy - Frances Burney's 'Evelina' and Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' by Anonymous, GRIN Publishing
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Author: Anonymous ISBN: 9783656282037
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: October 2, 2012
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Anonymous
ISBN: 9783656282037
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: October 2, 2012
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: This essay is intended to compare both novels regarding their attempt to criticize patriarchy and conducts of the time by sometimes more and sometimes less obvious means of comedy. It shall be discussed, how both writers gain the attention of the audience towards social critique through their narrative techniques as well as through means of characterization. It is to find that although the narrative styles, as well as the stories, seem different, there are certain features which appear similar or create a similar effect and are used in order to call attention to the civilian inequality between men and women.

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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg, language: English, abstract: This essay is intended to compare both novels regarding their attempt to criticize patriarchy and conducts of the time by sometimes more and sometimes less obvious means of comedy. It shall be discussed, how both writers gain the attention of the audience towards social critique through their narrative techniques as well as through means of characterization. It is to find that although the narrative styles, as well as the stories, seem different, there are certain features which appear similar or create a similar effect and are used in order to call attention to the civilian inequality between men and women.

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