03.25.07

paper topic!

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:39 pm by janeaustenfilm

Ok, don’t laugh…here is my semblance of an argument…any help/thoughts would do. I’ll look forward to that article in my mailbox tomorrow!!!:)

This paper will discuss the 1995 adaptation of Persuasion and the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in regards to Virginia Woolf’s essays A Room of One’s Own and “The Cinema.”

This paper will argue that certain scenes from both the 1995 Persuasion and the 2005 Pride and Prejudice use emotional and physical space to portray post-feminist nostalgic ideals that belong to the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries instead of the early 19^th. As discussed in Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, women need space and money in order to write and think. In Austen’s novels, each heroine enjoys reading and thinking, but is physically and emotionally confined through their sex and lack of wealth. In order to “free” them emotionally and phsically in the adaptations, directors and screen-writers use physical space as a vehicle to portray their post-feminist concerns, which invokes a certain nostalgia for the viewer.

 –Leah

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