Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels

Settling, Speculating and Superfluity

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: Lynda A. Hall ISBN: 9783319507361
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: February 22, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Lynda A. Hall
ISBN: 9783319507361
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: February 22, 2017
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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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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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