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This thesis addresses the significant but often overlooked relationship between Jane Austen's works and the body of criticism about them and the two major craft movements of the nineteenth century: the Handicraft Movement and the Arts and Crafts Movement. The connections occur at two important moments during that century—first, at the moment of Austen's career during the Regency/Romantic period, and second, at the Victorian moment of the years surrounding the 1869 publication of James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir about Austen. In both of these moments, critics and reviewers repeatedly respond to Austen's life and works by using craft-related diction. This diction and the coetaneous nature of the craft and critical movements are indicative of the ongoing struggle throughout the nineteenth century to negotiate, eliminate, or redefine the art versus craft aesthetic binary. During the Regency moment, this negotiation begins to emerge in the heyday of the Handicraft Movement and its love for ornamentation. However, it is not until the years surrounding the publication of Austen-Leigh's Memoir that the interdisciplinary ideologies of craft and literary aesthetics burst forth. This period of overlap is short-lived, lasting approximately two decades. Nevertheless, by acknowledging its existence and examining its influence upon the Memoir and the criticism surrounding it, we can gain a greater appreciation for the aesthetic context in which the Memoir was published and for the image of Austen crafted by Victorian reviewers—an image that would ultimately become the literary inheritance of readers and scholars in the twentieth century.

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Le discours de la doxa est le ciment du lien social. Il favorise la logique de l’identification à un groupe. Un groupe social se reconnaît à son idiome et à ses signifiants-maîtres. Ces signifiants fonctionnent comme signes de reconnaissance. Ces signes sont classifiés selon une échelle de valeurs qui permet de juger les discours en fonction de leur emploi de ces signes. Tous ces signes se résument en réalité à un seul signe, celui de l’argent. Le seul discours susceptible de pouvoir s’opposer à cette logique du capital est le discours amoureux. L’expérience amoureuse est une aspiration à un nouveau discours. Les amants doivent inventer un nouvel idiome leur permettant de fonder un nous qui ne soit plus le nous du discours social. L’ironie de l’écriture austenienne attaque cet idéalisme. Discours du capital et discours amoureux ont un même aboutissement, le mariage. Le mariage appartient à une logique économique. Il assure la survie des partenaires d’un contrat. Dans un tel contexte, l’idéal amoureux est incapable de se libérer de la logique du capital. Capital et amour ne forment qu’un seul et même idéal. Dans les romans de Jane Austen, la rencontre amoureuse, entre idéal et désenchantement, est paradoxale et ambivalente. Le rite social du mariage représente un effort pour traduire l’idiome du capital dans celui de l’amour et vice versa. Or ces deux idiomes ne sont pas traduisibles l’un dans l’autre. L’écriture austenienne témoigne d’un différend. Le Neutre est le fondement de ce témoignage. Si l’écriture des romans de Jane Austen emprunte le langage de la morale, le discours n’est pas moralisateur. L’usage de l’ironie neutralise tout jugement définitif. Le jugement est renvoyé à la responsabilité du lecteur. La lecture des romans de Jane Austen devient une expérience du témoignage d’un différend. / The discourse of the doxa is what holds society together. This discourse orientates the logic presiding at the identification to a group. A social group can be recognized by its idiom and by its master-signifiers. These signifiers work as signs of recognition. They are classified according to a scale of values, which allows to judge discourses depending on the way those signs are used. There is in fact only one sign that governs their use: money. The only discourse which could stand against the power of the capital is the discourse of love. The experience of love leads to a search for a new type of discourse. Lovers have to invent a new idiom to be able to form a new we which will no longer be the we of the social discourse. But this idealism is discredited by the irony of Jane Austen’s novels. The discourse of the capital and the discourse of love lead to the same purpose, marriage. Getting married is an economic urge. The survival of the two partners is guaranteed by marriage. In such a context, love as an ideal cannot free itself from the logic of the capital. Capital and love become one identical ideal. In Jane Austen’s novels, between idealism and disenchantment, love is represented in a paradoxical and ambivalent way. Marriage, as a social rite, represents an effort to translate the idiom of the capital into the idiom of love and vice versa. However these idioms cannot be translated into one another. Jane Austen’s way of writing bears witness to this differend. The choice of the Neuter is the basis of this possibility. If in Jane Austen’s novels, the language of morality is omnipresent, their discourse is not a moralizing one. Irony neutralizes any final judgment. The responsibility to judge is imparted to the reader. Reading Jane Austen’s novels becomes the experience of what it means to bear witness to the differend.

Jane Austen (1775- 1817) vécut à une période de ruptures politiques, économiques et sociales sur lesquelles se greffèrent des expériences de la séparation sur les plans familiaux, personnels mais également professionnels et littéraires qui engendrèrent un sentiment de déchirure, sinon conscient, du moins profond. Le sentiment de la déliquescence du lien social et le besoin conséquent de liant qui émanent de ses 9 romans sont le reflet littéraire de ces expériences initiales fortes de la déliaison. De ce constat – navré – de la fragmentation du monde résulte l’élaboration d’une véritable éthique de l’attachement qui témoigne d’une préoccupation centrale pour les notions de sociabilité, de bienveillance et de politesse. Celles-ci définissent le souci d’autrui comme la voie tant de l’harmonie sociale que de la félicité et de la moralité, mettant en avant le rôle essentiel de la médiation d’autrui dans la constitution du sujet et établissant Austen non seulement en véritable romancière de l’union mais en romancière conservatrice. Cependant, chez Austen, le maillage se fait également procédé d’écriture, relevant d’une volonté de structuration, d’ordre et de contrôle scripturaux, qui, si elle accorde une place de choix au lien avec le lecteur, n’est pas sans présenter des ambivalences conséquentes. Le maillage ne cacherait-il pas autre chose qu’un besoin de relier le monde ? Ne participerait-il pas, au final, à définir Austen comme une romancière de l’Ego, travaillée par la notion de désir et partageant notamment les préoccupations de ses contemporains romantiques ? / Our project is to offer an analysis of the nine major works of English novelist Jane Austen. Austen (1775-1817) lived through a time of political, economic and social changes, on top of which came further personal and professional experiences of loss and separation which led to an overwhelming sense of fragmentation. As to counter what she deemed a serious threat to her world, Austen thus elaborates a profound ethics of attachment, testifying to a real concern for the notions of sociability, sympathy and politeness, which bears striking similarities with Shaftesbury’s philosophy. Concern for others is defined as the only real path towards social harmony, personal felicity and morality, underlining the centrality of social relationships in Austen’s representation of the individual. However, we will throw light on the complexity and problems of such representation, so as to show how instrumental those ambivalences are in defining Austen actually as a novelist of the « I », preoccupied with the notion of personal desire and sharing the concerns of her Romantic contemporaries as early as Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility.

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Jane Austen har blivit en av den engelskspråkiga litteraturens klassiska författare med sina romaner som handlar om unga kvinnor under det sena sjuttonhundratalet och det tidiga artonhundratalet. En av hennes första romaner, Northanger Abbey (1818) är ett av hennes mest humoristiska och ironiska verk. Den är inte en av hennes mest omtalade eller kändaste romaner men det är, med mina egna ord, en av de mest underskattade av hennes romaner. I Northanger Abbey reflekteras de faktiska klasskillnader, könsroller och könsförväntningar som fanns i Englands samhälle under hennes samtid. Med hjälp av genusteori med en biografisk förankring undersöker denna uppsats hur Austen använder satir för att kritisera samhället. Genom en djupgående analys av romanen finner uppsatsen att samhällskritik kan skönjas, där kvinnans förutsättningar, roll och ställning, sociala konventioner, patriarkatet och samtidens populära genre gotiken kritiseras. Uppsatsen kommer fram till att Austen använder humor, ironi och parodi som ett verktyg för att kunna säga vad som var offentligt otillåtet och romanen kritiserar därmed samhällsnormerna. Austen har skrivit en roman som innefattar ett flertal budskap och visar feministiska förtecken då hon tar ståndpunkt för kvinnors rättigheter och ställning. Genom dess rika omfång visar sig Northanger Abbey vara ett lämpligt material att använda i skolan för att främja elevernas utveckling och lärande, i muntlig likväl som skriftlig form. / Jane Austen novels deals with young women in the late eighteenth century and early twentieth century and have made her one of the classical writers of the English literature. Northanger Abbey (1818), one of her first novels, is also one of her most humoristic and ironic productions. Although, it is not her most mentioned or most famous novels but it is, in my own words, one of her most underestimated novels. In Northanger Abbey, the actual class differences, gender roles and gender expectations that existed in England during her time are reflected. This paper uses gender theory with a biographic foundation to examine how Austen uses satire to criticize society. Through an analyze of the novel, social criticism can be distinguished where women’s conditions, their role and position as well as social conventions, the patriarchy and the popular gothic genre are criticized. The essay concludes that Austen uses humor, irony and parody as tools to be able to say what was publicly forbidden to say and the novel thereby criticizes the social norms. Austen has written a novel that includes a number of messages and shows feministic signs as she takes a stand for women’s rights and status. Through Northanger Abbey’s rich content it proves to be a suitable material to use in the school to promote the students’ development and learning, in oral as well as written form.