Xavier Lachazette, Université du Maine, Le Mans (France)
“Nature in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (novel and film)”
Date: December 1, 2006
Plan:
INTRODUCTION: Ch.
Brontë / Woolf v.
Joe Wright on Jane Austen
PART ONE: The paucity of natural...
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Xavier Lachazette, Université du Maine, Le Mans (France)
“Nature in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (novel and film)”
Date: December 1, 2006
Plan:
INTRODUCTION: Ch.
Brontë / Woolf v.
Joe Wright on Jane Austen
PART ONE: The paucity of natural references in P&P
Limited occurrences of nature-related terms
Scarcity of metaphors & similes
A limited number of descriptions of natural settings
PART TWO: Noteworthy exceptions: Aesthetic influences and “Pemberley”
William Gilpin and the Picturesque
An aesthetic conflict in the description of Pemberley
The best of both worlds
PART THREE: The romanticizing / Brontification of Jane Austen
“Jane Austen” as a construct
Wright’s Romantic rereading of the novel
Literary vs.
cinematic needs
CONCLUSION: Lewes’s criticism of Charlotte Brontë’s work
INTRODUCTION
It might seem paradoxical to suggest addressing the topic of nature in a Jane Austen novel.
After all, Charlotte
Brontë’s unflattering pronouncement on Austen’s limits
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