Document Type
Article
Degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
Advisor
Margaret Case, Ph.D.
Abstract
Many people view Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as primarily a “romance novel” in the modern sense of that phrase – in which two lovers overcome obstacles to reach a happy ending culminating in marriage. I argue that this view overlooks Austen’s skillful re-direction of the romance impulse. Specifically, Pride and Prejudice highlights the reality of what marriage means for 19th-century women.
Recommended Citation
Hammond, Alanna, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Brontë’s Autobiographical Novel" (2016). English Theses. 111.
https://docs.rwu.edu/english_theses/111
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