Training the Picturesque Eye: The Point of Views in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
A literary criticism of the novel "Persuasion," by Jane Austen, is presented. Topics include the role of first person point of view in the book, the relation of the marginalization of women to the notion of spectatorship in the novel's points of view, and the significance of picturesque scenes in th...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 39 - 60 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2017
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| Sumario: | A literary criticism of the novel "Persuasion," by Jane Austen, is presented. Topics include the role of first person point of view in the book, the relation of the marginalization of women to the notion of spectatorship in the novel's points of view, and the significance of picturesque scenes in the novel. The ideas of artist William Gilpin and art historian Peter de Bolla, as addressed in his book "The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain," are noted. |
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