The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen

• Main Author: Baublyté Kaufmann, Ruta (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.
• Physical Description: XIII, 180 p. 6 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319900117
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90011-7

This book argues that there are recurrent spatiotemporal patterns and structures in six Jane Austen novels which constitute a source of enduring, if unconscious, pleasure. More precisely, the book contends that there are overlapping natural and cultural cycles which co-exist in a constantly transmuting space-time and which are counterpointed with the linearity of pivotal events that drive the plot forwards. This work examines the psychological relations to these space-time patterns of the characters, principally the heroines, focusing on the transformations of their emotional states which prompt linear leaps.