엘리자베쓰 베넷의 가치: 구혼소설로서의 『오만과 편견』과 자율적 여성주체
The Value of Elizabeth Bennet: Pride and Prejudice as a Courtship Novel and the Autonomous Female Subject
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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the courtship novel, mainly written by women authors for women readers, raised the issues concerning women such as an equal partnership of husband and wife, women's education, the nonpatriarchal family, the economic conditions and the social positions of women. Influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment feminism, the courtship novel asserted that women were rational and autonomous subjects just like men. Thus while feminizing the genre of the novel, the courtship novel foregrounds the consciousness and desire of the heroine as well as highlights the recognition of the hidden value of the heroine. Especially, the heroine's value transfers from the extrinsic values such as social status, appearance, property and family to the intrinsic values such as moral worth, intelligence, and character. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice shares the characteristics of the courtship novel. In this novel, Fitzwilliam Darcy with great wealth, family and social status falls in love with the intelligent and exuberant heroine Elizabeth with neither money nor family background. To be rewarded with her heart, Darcy must be able to recognize the heroine's intrinsic and individual value and he also must change his value system that is based on the old system of social status. Describing the process in which Darcy changes his value system and learns to respect Elizabeth's pride as important as his own, Austen's Pride and Prejudice expresses the gist of the courtship novel; that is, the valorization of the middle-class women and the equal relationship between men and women.
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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the courtship novel, mainly written by women authors for women readers, raised the issues concerning women such as an equal partnership of husband and wife, women's education, the nonpatriarchal family, the economic conditions and the social positions of women. Influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment feminism, the courtship novel asserted that women were rational and autonomous subjects just like men. Thus while feminizing the genre of the novel, the courtship novel foregrounds the consciousness and desire of the heroine as well as highlights the recognition of the hidden value of the heroine. Especially, the heroine's value transfers from the extrinsic values such as social status, appearance, property and family to the intrinsic values such as moral worth, intelligence, and character. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice shares the characteristics of the courtship novel. In this novel, Fitzwilliam Darcy with great wealth, family and social status falls in love with the intelligent and exuberant heroine Elizabeth with neither money nor family background. To be rewarded with her heart, Darcy must be able to recognize the heroine's intrinsic and individual value and he also must change his value system that is based on the old system of social status. Describing the process in which Darcy changes his value system and learns to respect Elizabeth's pride as important as his own, Austen's Pride and Prejudice expresses the gist of the courtship novel; that is, the valorization of the middle-class women and the equal relationship between men and women.
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