By Lynda A. Hall
Jane Austen’s minor woman characters reveal the commercial and social realties of British girls within the lengthy eighteenth century and replicate the clash among intrinsic and expressed price in the evolving industry, the place fluctuations and fictions inherent within the financial and ethical worth constructions are uncovered. simply because the newly-minted paper funds was once suffering to precise its worth, so do Austen’s minor lady characters fight to claim their intrinsic price inside a industry that expresses their worthy as bearers of dowries. Austen’s minor lady characters divulge the plight of girls who accept transactional marriages, develop into speculators and predators, or develop into superfluous ladies who've left the wedding marketplace and conflict for private importance and life. those characters illustrate the paradox of price in the marriage marketplace economic climate, exposing women’s restricted offerings. This publication employs a socio-historical framework, contemplating the increase of a aggressive client economic climate juxtaposed with affective individualism.
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40 Chrysal’s gaze is omniscient, but once Chrysal is in an English bank, his vanity is diminished since he realizes he is one of many coins within the bank, highlighting the ubiquitous position of gold coins within the commercial system. ”41 His long descriptions of the various subscribers to the charity, for example, reveal the fictions created by and the gross hypocrisy of those who want to appear benevolent. The guinea’s time at the charity ends, however, and he travels among the people, often being used as a bribe, as a gambling token, and as 26 WOMEN AND ‘VALUE’ IN JANE AUSTEN’S NOVELS payment for prostitution, but occasionally the “wealth” represented by the guinea will buy food for a family, thus showing both the necessary as well as the unnecessary use of the coin.
Using a form of money to form a character and trace circulation tells us more about the concept of money as it evolves throughout the long eighteenth century. Thomas Bridges’s four-volume, The Adventures of a Bank-note (1770), post-dates Johnstone’s narrative by only a decade, yet it also serves as a contrast to the intrinsic value Chrysal sees in himself as a coin made of gold. In Bridges’s work, the narrator is “born” of a poet who deposits coins he has received in exchange for the £20 note. Rather than being endowed with supernatural powers to be able to see into the hearts and souls of the possessors (as Chrysal is), the bank-note is a mere observer of human behavior.
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