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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Money Matters
This is my final from Bob's Austen class.
I was still ticked off at Mooneyham for calling Sense & Sensibility a "failure," so I had to write something that showed how great it really is.
Take that, Laura G. Mooneyham White!! (or whatever you are calling yourself these days)
My girl Jane Austen had her issues and may have needed an editor, but that particular claim of yours is ridiculous.
Money Matters
In the opening chapters of her first published novel, Jane Austen offers a social critique via a family critique of the fictional Dashwood family. Austen responds to the writing of Edmond Burke, Mary Wollenstencraft and Thomas Paine, all of whom were concerned with the social impact of issues of inheritance and family security. By beginning Sense & Sensibility with an extended history of the Dashwood family and the financial situation of the novel’s main characters, Mary Dashwood and her daughters, Austen displays her knowledge of the importance of family history and social history. Unlike Austen’s later novel Pride & Prejudice in which the entailment of an estate has not yet driven out the unfortunate dependants, the anxiety surrounding loss of financial security has been fully realized upon the opening of Sense & Sensibility.
Gene Ruoff writes in his article “Wills” that the peculiar darkness of Sense & Sensibility is starkly social in nature. The novels two main protagonists, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, do not appear until Chapter III: money matters take up Chapters I and II. While both are “fictively excessive” in their descriptions of family history and finances, they are necessary to establish the social matrix in which Elinor and Marianne find themselves (349). Austen creates this social matrix by first responding to the work of Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, is cited by Ruoff as the origin of the “emergence of inheritance as a central subject of public political discourse” (353). Austen uses Burke’s idea of the intersection of family reproduction and social reproduction as the basis for Chapters I and II. Burke states that the perpetuation of property in families tends to the perpetuation of society itself (354). He assigns a responsibility to those who control the money matters in the family and assumes in them a benevolent disposition, for the “idea on inheritance” furnishes sure principles of conservation, transmission and improvement (354). Family virtue and civic virtue are thus inextricably tied together.
Austen interrogates the responsibility Burke presents through the figures of Elinor and Marianne’s half-brother John and his wife Fanny. John has given his promise to their father that he will do everything in his power to make comfortable the futures of his stepmother and half-sisters. Ruoff points out that John’s means are far from meager and at 10,000 per year, his annual income is roughly equal to that of Mr. Darcy’s in Pride & Prejudice (355). In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft materializes Burke’s anticipated situation of the Dashwood women, that girls would become dependent upon their brothers (355). Austen uses this idea in an explicit social setting through John’s promise and his eventual betrayal of that promise. John at first determines to give each sister with 1,000 and illustrates the “good sort of men” Wollstonecraft imagined (355). Austen continues Wollstonecraft’s scenario by including Fanny’s meddling in the situation. Wollstonecraft writes about the wife who is “cold-hearted, narrow-minded” and “displeased at seeing the property of her children lavished on an helpless sister” (355). It is Fanny who subtly convinces John to abandon any sort of financial gifts to his half-sisters. She does this by continual references to her son Henry’s inheritance taking the strain of possible financial gifts given by his father.
Austen uses Fanny as an embodiment of Thomas Paine’s response to Burke in The Rights of Man, where Paine attacks the law of primogenitureship. Paine claims that such a law is a “law against every law of nature, and nature itself calls for its destruction” (356). Paine recognized that such a law allowed the holder of the purse strings to trample on siblings and relations. While John initially represents Burke’s claim of the benevolent aristocracy, Fanny eventually shapes John into a representation of Paine’s critique of the hereditary principle: “that it provides a schooling in self-interest which blinds its adherents to notions of distributive justice” (357).
Money matters a great deal in Jane Austen’s world and in Sense & Sensibility, she responds to the public political discourse of inheritance in the 1790’s. Referring to Chapters I and II, Ruoff notes that Austen’s opening movement is “as stunning a public advent of a new writer as we have ever witnessed” (348). Her masterful response to the writings of Wollstonecraft, Burke and Paine display her knowledge of contemporary texts and her understanding of the political nature of family money matters.
I was still ticked off at Mooneyham for calling Sense & Sensibility a "failure," so I had to write something that showed how great it really is.
Take that, Laura G. Mooneyham White!! (or whatever you are calling yourself these days)
My girl Jane Austen had her issues and may have needed an editor, but that particular claim of yours is ridiculous.
Money Matters
In the opening chapters of her first published novel, Jane Austen offers a social critique via a family critique of the fictional Dashwood family. Austen responds to the writing of Edmond Burke, Mary Wollenstencraft and Thomas Paine, all of whom were concerned with the social impact of issues of inheritance and family security. By beginning Sense & Sensibility with an extended history of the Dashwood family and the financial situation of the novel’s main characters, Mary Dashwood and her daughters, Austen displays her knowledge of the importance of family history and social history. Unlike Austen’s later novel Pride & Prejudice in which the entailment of an estate has not yet driven out the unfortunate dependants, the anxiety surrounding loss of financial security has been fully realized upon the opening of Sense & Sensibility.
Gene Ruoff writes in his article “Wills” that the peculiar darkness of Sense & Sensibility is starkly social in nature. The novels two main protagonists, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, do not appear until Chapter III: money matters take up Chapters I and II. While both are “fictively excessive” in their descriptions of family history and finances, they are necessary to establish the social matrix in which Elinor and Marianne find themselves (349). Austen creates this social matrix by first responding to the work of Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790, is cited by Ruoff as the origin of the “emergence of inheritance as a central subject of public political discourse” (353). Austen uses Burke’s idea of the intersection of family reproduction and social reproduction as the basis for Chapters I and II. Burke states that the perpetuation of property in families tends to the perpetuation of society itself (354). He assigns a responsibility to those who control the money matters in the family and assumes in them a benevolent disposition, for the “idea on inheritance” furnishes sure principles of conservation, transmission and improvement (354). Family virtue and civic virtue are thus inextricably tied together.
Austen interrogates the responsibility Burke presents through the figures of Elinor and Marianne’s half-brother John and his wife Fanny. John has given his promise to their father that he will do everything in his power to make comfortable the futures of his stepmother and half-sisters. Ruoff points out that John’s means are far from meager and at 10,000 per year, his annual income is roughly equal to that of Mr. Darcy’s in Pride & Prejudice (355). In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft materializes Burke’s anticipated situation of the Dashwood women, that girls would become dependent upon their brothers (355). Austen uses this idea in an explicit social setting through John’s promise and his eventual betrayal of that promise. John at first determines to give each sister with 1,000 and illustrates the “good sort of men” Wollstonecraft imagined (355). Austen continues Wollstonecraft’s scenario by including Fanny’s meddling in the situation. Wollstonecraft writes about the wife who is “cold-hearted, narrow-minded” and “displeased at seeing the property of her children lavished on an helpless sister” (355). It is Fanny who subtly convinces John to abandon any sort of financial gifts to his half-sisters. She does this by continual references to her son Henry’s inheritance taking the strain of possible financial gifts given by his father.
Austen uses Fanny as an embodiment of Thomas Paine’s response to Burke in The Rights of Man, where Paine attacks the law of primogenitureship. Paine claims that such a law is a “law against every law of nature, and nature itself calls for its destruction” (356). Paine recognized that such a law allowed the holder of the purse strings to trample on siblings and relations. While John initially represents Burke’s claim of the benevolent aristocracy, Fanny eventually shapes John into a representation of Paine’s critique of the hereditary principle: “that it provides a schooling in self-interest which blinds its adherents to notions of distributive justice” (357).
Money matters a great deal in Jane Austen’s world and in Sense & Sensibility, she responds to the public political discourse of inheritance in the 1790’s. Referring to Chapters I and II, Ruoff notes that Austen’s opening movement is “as stunning a public advent of a new writer as we have ever witnessed” (348). Her masterful response to the writings of Wollstonecraft, Burke and Paine display her knowledge of contemporary texts and her understanding of the political nature of family money matters.
Update
I finally remembered the username/password, so here we are again.
All these security measures are hilarious.
Someone must have tipped off TPTB about all the nuclear secrets to which I have access.
I guess I better sheath my dagger and put away my Secret Agent baseball cap.
Just wanted to mention that I have been using Myspace and Facebook rather than Blogger.
If I post a blog on Myspace I'll try to remember to post it here as well.
Friend me on Myspace and you can see all the evidence of my terribly exciting life.
:)
Since I LOVE the current background photo (from the girly trip to Medieval Times in Dallas the day after Sondra's wedding) and the current color scheme, it shall remain.
Over and out.
All these security measures are hilarious.
Someone must have tipped off TPTB about all the nuclear secrets to which I have access.
I guess I better sheath my dagger and put away my Secret Agent baseball cap.
Just wanted to mention that I have been using Myspace and Facebook rather than Blogger.
If I post a blog on Myspace I'll try to remember to post it here as well.
Friend me on Myspace and you can see all the evidence of my terribly exciting life.
:)
Since I LOVE the current background photo (from the girly trip to Medieval Times in Dallas the day after Sondra's wedding) and the current color scheme, it shall remain.
Over and out.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Here we are again!
Yikes, that last post is depressing!!
I chalk it up to all that Social Protest lit I was reading at the time.
Read Jude the Obscure and then try to write a happy poem.
It won't work. :)
So it's winter break and I'm planning on graduating with my BA in May.
Commencement is on my birthday, how twisted is that.
I'm going to be like those poor people who have a birthday on Christmas.
I missed the deadline for application to the MA program, so I'm deciding what to do about that. I might register as post-baccalaureate status and take 494 and whatever they'll let me credit towards an MA.
I will start reading the billion novels on the list for my orals.
I am so nervous about that.
I also have to find out if I can test out of the language requirement.
If I can't, I'll probably take Latin.
Per aspera at astra!
Am I the only one who becomes frustrated with the Bible reading charts that start in Genesis and end in Revy?
I just can't get through those.
I need the ones that are spread out, you know, something Old Testament, something New Testament, something borrowed, something blue...
Oh wait, that can't be right...
It's 1:18 am and I'm going to bed.
www.myspace.com/damekathrynthegreat
I chalk it up to all that Social Protest lit I was reading at the time.
Read Jude the Obscure and then try to write a happy poem.
It won't work. :)
So it's winter break and I'm planning on graduating with my BA in May.
Commencement is on my birthday, how twisted is that.
I'm going to be like those poor people who have a birthday on Christmas.
I missed the deadline for application to the MA program, so I'm deciding what to do about that. I might register as post-baccalaureate status and take 494 and whatever they'll let me credit towards an MA.
I will start reading the billion novels on the list for my orals.
I am so nervous about that.
I also have to find out if I can test out of the language requirement.
If I can't, I'll probably take Latin.
Per aspera at astra!
Am I the only one who becomes frustrated with the Bible reading charts that start in Genesis and end in Revy?
I just can't get through those.
I need the ones that are spread out, you know, something Old Testament, something New Testament, something borrowed, something blue...
Oh wait, that can't be right...
It's 1:18 am and I'm going to bed.
www.myspace.com/damekathrynthegreat
Saturday, May 05, 2007
Curtain
When he came to her in dreams,
when the moon cast its midnight curtain
over the earth,
it was the little things she tried to remember.
The way his big hands
held little hands.
The tilt of his head
and the question in his eyes
when she told him that she was not coming back.
The feel of his fingertips brushing across her cheek.
It was always the same dream.
Always the same.
He was gone when she woke up.
The curtain was drawn back
and the light does not like ghosts.
They only come out at night.
In dreams.
Pains.
Tears.
Cries.
When would the joy come?
This was what she
longed for,
hoped for.
This was what she
longed for,
hoped for?
This wasn’t what she imagined.
He was what she imagined
and he was real.
This was real, too.
More real than him.
But he was gone.
The light was too bright.
She wanted someone to close the curtain.
Then he might come.
Still a dream.
when the moon cast its midnight curtain
over the earth,
it was the little things she tried to remember.
The way his big hands
held little hands.
The tilt of his head
and the question in his eyes
when she told him that she was not coming back.
The feel of his fingertips brushing across her cheek.
It was always the same dream.
Always the same.
He was gone when she woke up.
The curtain was drawn back
and the light does not like ghosts.
They only come out at night.
In dreams.
Pains.
Tears.
Cries.
When would the joy come?
This was what she
longed for,
hoped for.
This was what she
longed for,
hoped for?
This wasn’t what she imagined.
He was what she imagined
and he was real.
This was real, too.
More real than him.
But he was gone.
The light was too bright.
She wanted someone to close the curtain.
Then he might come.
Still a dream.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
As promised...
So, I saw that I haven't posted since January.
That's mostly because I haven't had anything terribly interesting to say.
My life has mostly been school, work and church.
I am a TA for Tim this semester and you know how I like to organize things and tell people what to do.
What can I say, it just comes naturally.
;)
Next post will be about the Texas trip!
That's mostly because I haven't had anything terribly interesting to say.
My life has mostly been school, work and church.
I am a TA for Tim this semester and you know how I like to organize things and tell people what to do.
What can I say, it just comes naturally.
;)
Next post will be about the Texas trip!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
The Prince and His Carbon Emissions
Yeesh.
This is absolutely hilarious.
I was reading it to mother and could barely get the words out because I laughing so hard.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/20/uk.prince.ap/index.html
This is absolutely hilarious.
I was reading it to mother and could barely get the words out because I laughing so hard.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/20/uk.prince.ap/index.html
Thursday, January 04, 2007
I've been tagged
I was just looking at Emma's blog and saw that she has tagged me.
I am requested to reveal 5 things about myself.
So.
Here goes...
1) I get hives for absolutely no reason. The last time was so bad, my doctor had to put me on Prednisone to make them go away.
2) When I wear a watch, which isn't often because they usually give me a rash, I switch it back and forth between my right and left wrists.
3) I have cheated on schoolwork. I know, you're shocked....what can I say...I'm human. But don't worry - I confessed. :)
4) I don't like white pianos.
5) I can sing O, Come All Ye Faithful in Latin.
I am requested to reveal 5 things about myself.
So.
Here goes...
1) I get hives for absolutely no reason. The last time was so bad, my doctor had to put me on Prednisone to make them go away.
2) When I wear a watch, which isn't often because they usually give me a rash, I switch it back and forth between my right and left wrists.
3) I have cheated on schoolwork. I know, you're shocked....what can I say...I'm human. But don't worry - I confessed. :)
4) I don't like white pianos.
5) I can sing O, Come All Ye Faithful in Latin.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Blather
I can't stand it when people refer to California as "Cali."
That really annoys me.
I'm not sure why.
Just annoys me.
For some reason, it seems to always come from non-natives, but perhaps I better not go there.
Things are progressing nicely for my study abroad venture.
I have to go do the workshop thingie.
The largest mall in Europe is in Sheffield....anyone up for some shopping?
:)
My schedule this week is insane.
I work Mon-Sat.
*cries*
In the words of Snow White, someday my Sugar Daddy will come...
I miss people who entertain me when they are gone.
All people who aren't entertaining should be fired from life or something.
I'm a firm believer in the whole not judging a book by its cover thing, but I'm afraid that there are wading pools among us.
Of course, I suppose the size of the wading pool is relative.
Stick an ant in a wading pool and he'll probably argue that it's very large indeed.
It's time for me to go to bed.
Wading pools and ants.
Bedtime.
Night, night.
That really annoys me.
I'm not sure why.
Just annoys me.
For some reason, it seems to always come from non-natives, but perhaps I better not go there.
Things are progressing nicely for my study abroad venture.
I have to go do the workshop thingie.
The largest mall in Europe is in Sheffield....anyone up for some shopping?
:)
My schedule this week is insane.
I work Mon-Sat.
*cries*
In the words of Snow White, someday my Sugar Daddy will come...
I miss people who entertain me when they are gone.
All people who aren't entertaining should be fired from life or something.
I'm a firm believer in the whole not judging a book by its cover thing, but I'm afraid that there are wading pools among us.
Of course, I suppose the size of the wading pool is relative.
Stick an ant in a wading pool and he'll probably argue that it's very large indeed.
It's time for me to go to bed.
Wading pools and ants.
Bedtime.
Night, night.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Blah blah blah
Sorry folks....I've been absent too long.
Anyways.
School and work.
That's all you've missed.
Yep.
The story of my life.
In other news, I offer you some photos, graciously shared by Bethany and her spiffy keen camera.
I have this nifty program that takes out the red eye.
Handy thing, that.
Anyways.
School and work.
That's all you've missed.
Yep.
The story of my life.
In other news, I offer you some photos, graciously shared by Bethany and her spiffy keen camera.
I have this nifty program that takes out the red eye.
Handy thing, that.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Oh, to be in England...
Oooooohhhhh...
I am so impressed.
I love this new theme.
Bob (the professor, not the deceased iPod) showed us a video about Robert Frost and the footage of England in it practically had me in tears.
I need help.
I need a Sugar Daddy.
Our hostel in London was at the King's Cross/St.Pancras stop (the light blue line).
I never got us lost in the Tube.
The only time we got mixed up was when Lissa was the navigator. :)
School is going fine.
I gotta go.
I have to go mingle with the relatives.
*sigh*
I worked six days straight this week.
I'm tired of people.
I am so impressed.
I love this new theme.
Bob (the professor, not the deceased iPod) showed us a video about Robert Frost and the footage of England in it practically had me in tears.
I need help.
I need a Sugar Daddy.
Our hostel in London was at the King's Cross/St.Pancras stop (the light blue line).
I never got us lost in the Tube.
The only time we got mixed up was when Lissa was the navigator. :)
School is going fine.
I gotta go.
I have to go mingle with the relatives.
*sigh*
I worked six days straight this week.
I'm tired of people.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Friday, August 25, 2006
Alright.
I figured since Emma has been posting after a 6 month absence, I should get on the ball.
So.
Yep.
Life goes on.
Here's a pic of Joanna and I at the BAD party -
She's hilarious.
She has great hair.
School is going well.
There are 3 guys in the Romanticism class.
Go figure.
This is the Schulz Center, home of the Charlie Brown Cafe.
It's so cool that there is Peanuts stuff on campus.
Anywhoo.
That's about it.
I'm not feeling terribly sparkly at the moment.
You'll have to check back.
OH!
I'm afraid Bob is on the downhill swing.
Might have to get a new one.
Something to think about.
Signing off.
I figured since Emma has been posting after a 6 month absence, I should get on the ball.
So.
Yep.
Life goes on.
Here's a pic of Joanna and I at the BAD party -
She's hilarious.
She has great hair.
School is going well.
There are 3 guys in the Romanticism class.
Go figure.
This is the Schulz Center, home of the Charlie Brown Cafe.
It's so cool that there is Peanuts stuff on campus.
Anywhoo.
That's about it.
I'm not feeling terribly sparkly at the moment.
You'll have to check back.
OH!
I'm afraid Bob is on the downhill swing.
Might have to get a new one.
Something to think about.
Signing off.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Tasha
I swiped these from Amanda's blog.
Is this kid cute or what.
She's like Gerber Baby cute.
I can't believe how cute she is, but considering that she's part Gooch, how could she not be cute.
;)
Is this kid cute or what.
She's like Gerber Baby cute.
I can't believe how cute she is, but considering that she's part Gooch, how could she not be cute.
;)
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