Feeling Embodied: Consciousness, Persuasion, and Jane Austen
2003; Ohio State University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/nar.2003.0005
ISSN1538-974X
Autores Tópico(s)Joseph Conrad and Literature
ResumoFor eight and a half years, Anne Elliot has longed for the words of Frederick Wentworth's letter, and we as Persuasion's readers have waited for them as well—twenty chapters of waiting—since Anne's first murmuring of "he" at the close of Chapter Three. However, I'd like to suggest that we've waited far longer for what this letter holds. If Jane Austen's novels all lead ineluctably to the return of "him" and the proposal (renewed or first offered), the heartfelt moment of declaration between the lovers before Persuasion seems in Austen's writing to be essentially non-representational, though its idea can be alluded to as a shared ellipse between the lovers. We are given words after the proposal of when each realized that he or she loved, and how each feels now that the acknowledgment has been made. But Austen mostly drops a veil over the actual words of love first exchanged—the words of passion spoken in the moment, not recollected in the tranquility of a moment later from the position of the established "us." 1
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