Between 1948 and 1994, television was the chief medium for adaptations of Austen's novels. ... There viewers may be unable to recognize how film translates the complexity and subtlety of the novel. ... The difference in material scale alone make the novel-to-performance adaptation difficult. ... The one of the most essential differences between film and novel is that films show and novels tell. ... Narrative Structure Film tends toward more fluctuation in narrative point of view than the novel. ...

• Word Count: 3105
• Approx Pages: 12
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Northanger Abbey is an excellent novel because it shows the society reflected in many ways throughout the novel therefore giving the reader an inside knowledge of the time period. During the time period that this novel was written the gothic novel was a main piece of literature that was read. ... Coleridge's opinion of the novel suggests that the elements in the gothic novels were not important to its understanding as a romance novel. ... However, she does continue to make a parody of the novel, as it was know. ... At the beginning of the novel Catherine is very young and nave; howev...

• Word Count: 2803
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

[Key words] Pride and prejudice, marriage, money Introduction First published in 1813, Pride and prejudice is a very popular novel written by Jane Austen. ... But in other marriage cases in this novel, we can see that if money and love can't be held together in one marriage, love would always make a concession to money because of the special background. ... Marriage is central for all characters in the novel: not just daughters and sons, but parents, aunts, uncles and everybody else who has some interest in the subject. ... This is the first line in the novel, which clearly shows the...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

It is accepted at the beginning of the novel that Darcy is the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world'. ... Within the novel there are other, smaller courtships: Mr. ... Courtship takes on an unspoken, importance in the novel. ... Pemberley, Darcy's estate, sits at the centre of the novel, literally and figuratively, as a symbol of the man who owns it. ... Journeys, even short ones are the function for change in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 3094
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. ... Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... The novel follows the development of Jeanette as she grows up and makes the decision that she is a lesbian and this causes uproar in the family home and in church as her highly religious mother regar...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While many literary theorists may disagree with the possibility that a female gaze does exist, this argument is often supported by the interaction between the male and female characters in many of Austen's novels. Deciding whether or not Austen was exhibiting a female gaze can best be determined by comparing the role of the gaze in Austen's most widely known novel, Pride and Prejudice, and the novel that stands out among her others, Northanger Abbey. ... Austen's novels are full of men who fit this description. ... The men in this novel are keenly aware that they are the priv...

• Word Count: 4152
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"2 Her novels raise central matters within her society, often challenging their foundation and meaning through her portrayal of them. ... Through an examination of her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, and with reference to her later 1815 novel Emma, it is evident that Austen's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. ... In light of this, David Herbert's assertion that Austen studies "personal values, virtues and deficiencies within her 'set,'" but neglects to "questi...

• Word Count: 5516
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. ...

• Word Count: 11136
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School