Jane Austen on Nature

Mary Jane Curry

Jane Austen on Nature
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 December 2024
Pages
120
ISBN
9781476696249

Jane Austen on Nature

Mary Jane Curry

Jane Austen's heroines respond to the power of the natural world, seeking comfort in nature's calm or referencing "verdure"--meaning fresh greenness and fertility--in relation to their awakening sexuality.

This book focuses on the interactions between Austen's heroines and the uncontrollable, wild world. Femininity and nature are interwoven; male characters often exploit nature as they exploit women. In the fragment Sanditon, Austen satirizes resort developers who commodify both nature and women. As this work discusses, Austen transformed the courtship novel through her use of pastoral language, illuminating themes of greed, the inequality between men and women, and the emotional development of young women in the early nineteenth century.

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