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Feelings, Class, and Englishness: Jane Austen's Emma
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Ever since Lionel Trilling suggested that Jane Austen’s Emma displays national feelings, many critics have analyzed the historical contexts and significance of the national import in this novel. Brian Southam points out that the celebration of Englishness in contrast to the Frenchness in this novel is due to the social atmosphere after the end of the Napoleonic War. As these critics argue, this novel deliberately and rather frequently defines Englishness and sometimes glorifies it. For example, in one dialogue with Emma, Mr. Knightly, while contrasting the English ‘amiable’ with French ‘aimable’, emphasizes the importance of “the English delicacy towards the feelings of other people.” As we can see from this passage, at the center of newly constructed idea of Englishness, there lies the concept of delicate feelings. This paper aims to probe into the significance and value of feelings in this novel that are intricately intertwined with the question of nationality, the construction of the new ideal of masculinity as well as the newly rising ideas of personal worth and merit in the class distinction. The ‘feelings’, specifically the ‘delicacy towards the feelings of others,’ this paper argues, are the key element in the definition of the class, gender and nationality in early nineteenth-century England.
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Ever since Lionel Trilling suggested that Jane Austen’s Emma displays national feelings, many critics have analyzed the historical contexts and significance of the national import in this novel. Brian Southam points out that the celebration of Englishness in contrast to the Frenchness in this novel is due to the social atmosphere after the end of the Napoleonic War. As these critics argue, this novel deliberately and rather frequently defines Englishness and sometimes glorifies it. For example, in one dialogue with Emma, Mr. Knightly, while contrasting the English ‘amiable’ with French ‘aimable’, emphasizes the importance of “the English delicacy towards the feelings of other people.” As we can see from this passage, at the center of newly constructed idea of Englishness, there lies the concept of delicate feelings. This paper aims to probe into the significance and value of feelings in this novel that are intricately intertwined with the question of nationality, the construction of the new ideal of masculinity as well as the newly rising ideas of personal worth and merit in the class distinction. The ‘feelings’, specifically the ‘delicacy towards the feelings of others,’ this paper argues, are the key element in the definition of the class, gender and nationality in early nineteenth-century England.
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