Abstract

This thesis attempts to search for the clues related to British domestic exploitation of the peasant labors and overseas colonization of other countries after rereading the novel Pride and Prejudice, with an aim to bring out Austen’s intimacy with Imperialism. It will offer some insights into a better understanding of provincial world created by Jane Austen.

Highlights

  • Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been long praised as a novel dealing exclusively with love affairs within the provincial world Austen has created

  • Living in an era when Britain was busily engaged in its wildest domestic exploitation of the poor and overseas colonization of other countries about the world, Austen is certain to be familiar with the idea of imperial expansion

  • He only selects Mansfield Park for such detailed scrutiny, he never acknowledges that Pride and Prejudice is immune from the influence of colonial expansion and Imperialism

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Summary

Introduction

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been long praised as a novel dealing exclusively with love affairs within the provincial world Austen has created. Critics of different schools have studied the novel from various perspectives. There are still some others who write that Austen is a writer with feminist consciousness. Among different discussions of the novel, few people start their exploration into the novel from Austen’s attitudes toward the imperial expansion of her time. Though many scholars have discussed Austen’s Mansfield Park about her conspiracy with Imperialism, there exists a critical reservation about Pride and Prejudice to that effect. In view of the critical inadequacy in the appreciation of Pride and Prejudice, this thesis attempts to make a thorough exploration into the imperial concern Austen might have concealed for in the novel

The Enclosure Movement
British Overseas Colonization
The Relationship between Netherfield Park and Imperial Expansion Overseas
Military Involvement in Overseas Expansion
No Mention of Wars
Austen’s Complicity with Imperialism
Conclusion
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