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Abstract
This study reveals the tensions between the colonized and the colonizer, the landlord and the tenant, the superior and the inferior, the female and the male within the ideology of the empire. It debates the sociopolitical issues of the Ascendancy, reflecting on the religious unrest and the political unrest in Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) and The Absentee (1812).
The study also reveals the conduct of war between England and France as well as the Regency Crisis and the scandals connected to it in Austen’s Regency novels Mansfield Park (1814) and Persuasion (1818).
The thesis reflects on the British empire and its expansion, the radical changes in Britain’s legal system of governance, both at home and abroad.
Austen suggests alternative visions of political governance that are based on the social construction of gender.
The study also depicts the vulnerability of women in the economic market place and her dependency on man (materialistic dependence) due to the lack of profession for women, which is widely available for men.
The family reflects the political condition of the state where men represent the colonizer, the superior and the authoritative, but women represent the colonized, the inferior and the vulnerable. The thesis is divided into an introduction, three chapters and a conclusion.