Love and Marriage: a sociohistorical analysis of the feeling and institution in the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen

• Grant number: 11/05708-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Carla Alexandra Ferreira
• Grantee: Sandra Mônica do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims at investigating how marriage is figured in the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen. The literary text was chosen due to its repercussion on English Literature context besides being a literary classic as well as written from a feminine perspective. The main purpose will be to demonstrate how marriage was built in the novel and how it developed and changed in that society. Thus,this research will try to show the importance the cultural and historical context had for marriage as an institution, considering also the social, political and economicalcharacteristics of that time. In this way, this research proposes an aesthetical analysislinked to the historical and social study of the context of this text production and willalso point to a review of the naturalized concept of marriage.