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The Child Is Mother Of The Woman: Parenting And Self-Parenting In Emma And Middlemarch, Andrea E. Lehman
The Child Is Mother Of The Woman: Parenting And Self-Parenting In Emma And Middlemarch, Andrea E. Lehman
Honors Papers
In order to examine the significance of "parent-child" relationships vis á vis the growing autonomy of Emma Woodhouse and Dorothea Brooke, we must first look at them as daughters in relation to parents, real or surrogate, ineffectual or influential. Next, to what extent do these two women act as counsellors and parents for siblings and friends, and how does their attitude to that role change? Last, both these novels feature heroines whose husbands or future husbands are much older than they are, and who assume parental roles with them. How does each heroine relate to this father/lover figure? Is he …
The Comic Elements In Jane Austen's Works, Thomas Chuan Chen
The Comic Elements In Jane Austen's Works, Thomas Chuan Chen
Honors Papers
Examines comedy in Jane Austen's writing.