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    Jane Austen's Emma follows the title character, Emma Woodhouse, and her friends and neighbors in the fictional village of Highbury, England. Austen wrote in a style she developed called "free indirect discourse," where the third-person narration shifts fluidly between describing events objectively and representing the characters' subjective experiences. In Emma, Austen explores the social norms and institutions of her time, particularly the crucial choices women faced regarding marriage and relationships. She sets the novel in a small community where class differences are minimal and the characters' romantic intrigues and misperceptions provide opportunities for humor and social commentary.

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    Jane Austen's Emma follows the title character, Emma Woodhouse, and her friends and neighbors in the fictional village of Highbury, England. Austen wrote in a style she developed called "free indirect discourse," where the third-person narration shifts fluidly between describing events objectively and representing the characters' subjective experiences. In Emma, Austen explores the social norms and institutions of her time, particularly the crucial choices women faced regarding marriage and relationships. She sets the novel in a small community where class differences are minimal and the characters' romantic intrigues and misperceptions provide opportunities for humor and social commentary.

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    Jane Austen's Emma follows the title character, Emma Woodhouse, and her friends and neighbors in the fictional village of Highbury, England. Austen wrote in a style she developed called "free indirect discourse," where the third-person narration shifts fluidly between describing events objectively and representing the characters' subjective experiences. In Emma, Austen explores the social norms and institutions of her time, particularly the crucial choices women faced regarding marriage and relationships. She sets the novel in a small community where class differences are minimal and the characters' romantic intrigues and misperceptions provide opportunities for humor and social commentary.

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    Jane Austens Emma

    Jane Austen: 1775-1817


    wrote domestic fiction--all her novels are only concerned with a small circle of friends believed one should write only from ones experience, thus she never writes a scene set outside England her plots concern themselves with women and their choices of mates--believed choice of whether and whom to marry crucial to women saw marriage as the foundation of social order

    Austens literary forerunners

    18th century 1st personautobiographical novels 18th century epistolary (in letters) novels
    Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe Samuel Richardsons Pamela

    18th century 3rd personlimited omniscient novels


    most novels by women novelists, ie. Frances Burney, that focused the omniscient narrator only on the heroine Henry Fieldings Tom Jones

    18th century 3rd personomniscient novels

    Point of View in Austen

    Not 1st person autobiographical


    too focused on one individual too knowing of that persons thoughts

    Not 3rd person omniscient


    narrative voice misses out on lots of information

    Not exactly 3rd person limited omniscient


    the narrative voice is not fixed on one person

    Free indirect stylea floating 3rd person limited omniscient narrator

    Highbury and its environs


    Randalls Hartfield Donwell Abbey M/M Weston Emma George (Frank Mr. Woodhouse Knightley Churchill)
    flat above store Mrs. Bates Miss Bates (Jane Fairfax)
    townhouse The Coles

    the Vicarage Mr. Elton (Mrs. Elton)


    Abbey Mill Farm Mrs. Martin Elizabeth Martin Robert Martin

    the school Mrs. Goddard Harriet Smith


    townhouse The Coxes

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