Jane Austen's Families - (Anthem Nineteenth-Century) by June Sturrock (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>"Jane Austen's Families" focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen's six novels, especially on interaction between parents and children. It examines with particular care the relations of fathers and daughters. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Jane Austen's Families" discusses the fictional families - such as the Bennets and the Bertrams - whose dynamics are crucial both to Austen's plots and to her explorations of ethical complexities. The study focuses upon the central characters' interactions with their own families and (to a lesser extent) with other family groups in an exploration of how emotional and moral development is both hindered and fostered by these interactions. Significantly, Austen chooses not to write about the orphaned heroines so often preferred by novelists of the period; rather, for a writer who cares intensely for what is natural and probable in fiction, the most common early experience of surviving the pains and pleasures of family life provides the richest material for her work. </p> <p>This study is historically grounded, reading Austen in the context of contemporary writing and visual culture in an exploration of her treatment of the relations between parent and child. It examines Austen's heroines as their parents' daughters, responding to and resisting their upbringing, and shows how family interactions shape their courtships. Inevitably this concern involves a consideration both of the ethics of parenthood and of the ethics these heroines acquire from their parents, through adaptation, imitation and resistance to what they are taught, directly and indirectly. Interactions between parent and child affect both the daughter's experience and her active moral life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'Sturrock reads the novels through the lens of ethical criticism, and explores how the heroines differ from their parents in terms of morality. [...] Sturrock's contribution lies in her exploration of the various intrafamilial relations: those between sisters, between mothers and daughters, and between fathers and daughters. [...] Exhaustively researched and well written, Jane Austen's Families is a pleasure to read.' --'Forum for Modern Language Studies'</p><br><br><p>'Sturrock writes with elegance and ease. But more than that with sympathy and compassion for both the fictional characters and for the hand that created them. [...] [A] concise but convincingly argued study.' --Joceline Bury, 'Jane Austen's Regency World'</p><br><br><p>'Sturrock [...] has researched, written, and published extensively in the field of 19th-century women's writing, a fact that is very apparent from the well-researched and knowledgeable tone of this book. [...] The author focuses primarily on the role of parents in influencing how children act, think, and feel, both in how they regard one another and in how they deal with society as a whole. She also discusses sibling relationships in great depth. [...] Sturrock is clearly conversant with the scholarship in the field of family relationships in Austen and in other novels of the time period. She includes detailed notes and an exhaustive bibliography; despite some dense prose, Sturrock's style is still engaging and easy to follow. Summing Up: Recommended.' --R. Stone, 'Choice'</p><br><br><p>'Sturrock's pseudo-sociological study almost has a "naturalist's eye" worthy of Austen herself. [...] She deftly links Austen's writing process with the development of characters.' --Mika Ross-Southall, 'Times Literary Supplement'</p><br><br><p>"Sturrock correctly notes that Austen eschewed the orphan heroine so central to the development of fiction both before and after her." --Adela Pinch, "Studies in English Literature"</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>June Sturrock is professor emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.</p>
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