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Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) (1775-1817)

Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) (1775-1817). Chawton House – on a rainy day The house where Austen lived when she wrote Persuasion. Linda Bree , our editor, at Chawton House (AJVS photos). A “ lecture ” for E106. I. Thinking With & II. Thinking Against. Assembly Rooms in Bath.

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Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818) (1775-1817)

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  1. Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)(1775-1817) Chawton House – on a rainy day The house where Austen lived when she wrote Persuasion Linda Bree, our editor, at Chawton House (AJVS photos)

  2. A “lecture” for E106 I. Thinking With & II. Thinking Against Assembly Rooms in Bath Bath photos by Elizabeth Losh,

  3. I.Thinking With from the outset: • A. Allying with the ironic narrator (in assessing characters, in understanding the “satiric field” etc.) • The novel’s coherence depends not just on narrative events but on the reader’s training in assessment (through irony) and on the moral patterning of the novel) • B. Responding to (cooperating with) generic conventions

  4. Thinking with: allowing the novel to teach • A. The uses of persuade, persuasion, etc.: • Vol. I, Ch. 2, 53, 54, 54; Ch. 4, 67, 68; Ch. 6, 81, 81, 85; Ch. 7, 93; Ch. 10, 113, 117, 118, 121; Ch. 11, [123], 129; Ch. 12, 131, 132, [137], 141, [143], 144. Vol. II, Ch. 1, 145, 146; Ch. 2, 156; Ch. 6, 186; Ch. 7, 205; Ch. 9, 224; Ch.10, 231, 232; Ch. 11, 251, 251, • http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/austen/jane/a93p/ • B. Austen’s Aristotelian view of ethics: 117,123, 137-8. 143

  5. Still Thinking with: Bath • C. Seeing Bath as both a site for Austen's critique of social rank and a site for unexpected conjunctions (which Anne and Wentworth benefit from).

  6. More Ways to “think with” • D. Assessing the Navy: a meritocracy vs. an "ancient and respectable family" (46). • Compare the reading of the Navy lists (at the Musgroves’) with the reading of the Baronetage. • Sir W’s 2 foolish and foolishly undistinguished reasons for objecting to the Navy (59) • An ancient family (debt-ridden) replaced ‘on the ground’--i.e. ‘on the land’--by a naval family (competent, energetic) (149). • The one worthy Elliot (Anne) is drawn out of her family and re-placed in a context of merit, setting aside customary thinking (think Descartes). Austen thinks new.

  7. II. Thinking “against” • A. Thinking in dissent against cultural norms and cultural agreement • Recognizing that literature—along with many cultural customs, including even our own family practices—”normalizes” attitudes and cultural agreements that conceal fundamental injustices in gender and racial relations of power.

  8. Thinking “against” • B. "Jane Austen and Empire" - the Edward Said thesis in Culture and Imperialism • (See "Supportive quotations.”) • C. Life on a ship – some details not compatible with Austen’s idealized treatment • See "Supportive quotations.”)

  9. III. Thinking “with” & “against” • Examples from Lyme” ►1. Social rank: "On quitting the Cobb, they all went indoors with their new friends . . . gratification" (127-8). ►2. The work of hands: "Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves . . . " (128)

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