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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...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 39 - 60
Main Author: Tegan, Mary Beth
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2017
Subjects:
Persuasion (Book : Austen)
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Point of view (Literature)
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
De Bolla, Peter
Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape & Architecture in 18th-Century Britain, The (Book)
Women in literature
Picturesque, The
Eighteenth century
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Summary: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.