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Jane Austen’s Emma. wrote “domestic” fiction--all her novels are only concerned with a small circle of friends believed one should write only from one’s experience, thus she never writes a scene set outside England
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wrote “domestic” fiction--all her novels are only concerned with a small circle of friends • believed one should write only from one’s experience, thus she never writes a scene set outside England • her plots concern themselves with women and their choices of mates--believed choice of whether and whom to marry crucial to women • saw marriage as the foundation of social order Jane Austen: 1775-1817
18th century 1st person—autobiographical novels • Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe • 18th century epistolary (in letters) novels • Samuel Richardson’s Pamela • 18th century 3rd person—limited omniscient novels • most novels by women novelists, ie. Frances Burney, that focused the omniscient narrator only on the heroine • 18th century 3rd person—omniscient novels • Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones Austen’s literary forerunners
Not 1st person autobiographical • too focused on one individual • too knowing of that person’s thoughts • Not 3rd person omniscient • narrative voice misses out on lots of information • Not exactly 3rd person limited omniscient • the narrative voice is not fixed on one person • Free indirect style—a floating 3rd person limited omniscient narrator Point of View in Austen
