Englishness and Universality in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Cultural and Psychological Perspectives. An Analytical Study. Doctorat thesis,(2018) Université de Batna 2
| dc.contributor.author | NEZZAR Kenza | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-21T08:56:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-21T08:56:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-03-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is concerned with the cultural and psychological analysis of Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”highlightingboth the Englishness of the novel and its universality and proving that these twodo not function as a dichotomy in the novel. The work tries to shedsome light onthe eighteenth and early nineteenth century English society’s lifeandidiosyncrasies,to see how Austen succeeded despite her few travels and narrow scopeto portray the English upper and middle classes of the time making the novel an expression of Englishness. Using newHistoricism as a critical approach, we try tocontextualizethe novel and study it from acultural perspective, for, as it is assumed, novels are an expression of social life and cultural identity. This approach enabledfor an examination of both how the writer's times affected the work and how the work reflects the writer's times. In the second place, we will try to demonstrate the novel’s universality through the use of psychology and psycho criticismto try to see how Austen’s characters represent human types and make readers from different cultures and backgrounds identify with them.Suchattempt,to study the novel allows to advance the thought that Austen was an astute observer of the human character even before the advent of psychology as a human science.This was done by an exploration of the various subconscious processes underlying the novel. We have similarly tried to see the impact this novel has had in inspiring twentieth century novelists and film makers.Ultimately, we tried tentatively to demonstrate that beyond being an expression of Englishness, “Pride and Prejudice” is also evenly a classical universal novel that can appeal to any reader from any culture, and the fact that it stands for a particular cultural identity didn’t undermine its human dimension. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.univ-batna2.dz/handle/123456789/226 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.title | Englishness and Universality in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Cultural and Psychological Perspectives. An Analytical Study. Doctorat thesis,(2018) Université de Batna 2 |