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Reading the Clerical Domestic in the English Novel, 1740-1817.

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正題名/作者:	Reading the Clerical Domestic in the English Novel, 1740-1817./
作者:	Van Kley, Tina.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	252 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10A.
標題:	Religion. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13427276
ISBN:	9781392020487

Reading the Clerical Domestic in the English Novel, 1740-1817.
Van Kley, Tina.

Reading the Clerical Domestic in the English Novel, 1740-1817. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 252 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project develops the idea of the clerical domestic, a term I offer to describe how parish-level Church of England clergy characters in English domestic novels published after 1740 function both formally and thematically to construct and enforce ideals of English domesticity. I build this concept from readings of novels by Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Charlotte Lennox, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen. While some scholars have noted the presence of clergy figures in specific novels, this project takes a broader look at fictional representations of clergy, drawing connections and noticing patterns that persist throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. Furthermore, the project helps to flesh out existing scholarly discussions of the development of gendered power in marriage and the family, showing that the clerical office and the religious doctrines and advice they advanced constituted important raw material for that work. The clerical domestic appears across these novels to distinguish and validate elite masculinities as benevolent, obscuring its asymmetrical power dynamics behind virtues associated with the clerical office. In the novels I consider, representations of clergy appear within a suite of conventions. Clergymen figure in some way as mentors and guides to the protagonist in the courtship plot. In this capacity, clergy are often fairly minor characters of ambiguous social status, who work to advance these novels' courtship plots, as in Joseph Andrews (1742), The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Amelia (1752), and The Female Quixote (1752). At other times, novelists re-figure clerical mentors as guardians or fathers, generating genteel clergy with greater patriarchal authority. In these cases, as in Evelina (1778) and Camilla (1796), clerical mentorship manifests more intimately in quasi-filial relationships with the protagonist. The clerical mentorship that these novels establish sets the stage for a significant development, seen in several of Austen's novels, in which heroes are themselves clergymen and thus direct participants in the courtship plot, carrying qualities associated with the clerical office directly into the domestic sphere. I demonstrate this pattern in Northanger Abbey (1818, finished 1803), Sense and Sensibility (1811), and, of course, Mansfield Park (1814). Across all of the novels examined in this project, one trope persists, which I call the expectation of exemplarity, an idealization of clergy that holds them to higher standards of moral virtue which are nevertheless inevitably disappointed. I offer historical context for the expectation of clerical exemplarity and analysis of its core instability which introduces space for satire, ridicule, and interpretive uncertainty. The novelists I discuss employ the tropes of the clerical domestic in varied ways, resulting in clergymen who range between the admirable, ridiculous, or contemptible, whose presence invests the domestic sphere with the sanction and authority of the clergy. Clerical social status changes across these novels, as does the clergy's orientation toward the domestic household. Indeed, the social status occupied by a clergy figure is consistently a critical factor in the relationships established between clergy and protagonists and profoundly informs the different configurations of their involvement in the courtship plots of these novels. The novels explored in detail, then, are part of a tradition in the English novel that builds and interrogates domestic order and gendered virtue. The project reveals how these novels, taken together, employed and eventually transformed a set of tropes that correspond to certain features of the clerical office of the eighteenth century in order to produce and interrogate a picture of benevolent male authority, contributing to evolving understandings of proper English gender and domesticity as they are bound up with formal developments in the English novel.

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Reading the Clerical Domestic in the English Novel, 1740-1817.
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