Constructing Mr. Darcy : tradition, gender, and silent spaces in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.

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dc.contributor.advisorLewis, Gladys S.,
dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Sylvia N.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHochenauer, Kurt
dc.contributor.committeeMemberIsrael, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-14T17:50:13Z
dc.date.available2020-02-14T17:50:13Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe reality of Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice is socially constructed; their goals and actions become a typification of society's institutions and conventions. Examining Austen's pivotal characters, with a particular focus on Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals that each is a product of a socio-cultural determinism as they reflect social institutions and represent cultural conventions. Gender categorizes social interactions in everyday life. As individuals act out gendered prescripts and expectations, they create gendered systems of dominance and power. These learned patterns of gender norms and roles are carried out in everyday life with "masculine" and "feminine" perpetuated as divergent and oppositional. Austen's Mr. Darcy is the product of the social construction of gender. Darcy's actions and self-representation reflect a historicity and ideology that is founded on gendered power relations. His is the ideology of patriarchy which guarantees the hegemonic position of men and the oppression of women. Language establishes and maintains the connection between personal identity and gender identity that produces the problem of masculine/feminine duality. In an effort to recast the prevailing masculine rhetorical structures that have defined language and society, Austen creates, in Pride and Prejudice, a model of feminine writing that deconstructs the repressive structures of thinking that invent gender inequality. Jane Austen offers us a new manner of masculinity in the "transformation" of Fitzwilliam Darcy and a feminist's recasting of relations between genders.
dc.identifier(AlmaMMSId)9972157385202196
dc.identifier.oclc(OCoLC)ocn251385287
dc.identifier.other(AlmaMMSId)9972157385202196
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/323753
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dc.subject.lcshSex role in literature
dc.thesis.degreeM.A., English
dc.titleConstructing Mr. Darcy : tradition, gender, and silent spaces in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
dc.typeAcademic theses
thesis.degree.grantorJackson College of Graduate Studies
uco.groupUniversity of Central Oklahoma::UCO - Jackson College of Graduate Studies::UCO - JCGS - Masters' Theses

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