O Bildungsroman feminino em persuasão de Jane Austen.

Abstract

This work analyses the novel Persuasion (1818), by the English writer Jane Austen (1775­1817), highlighting aspects that constitute it as a Female Bildungsroman, that is, a Feminine Novel of Formation. For such, it is based on the theoretical support of writers, such as, Pinto (1990), Maas (2000), Neto (2013), Woolf (2014), Dias (2011), Paula (2017), among others. First, we will show the beginning of the subgenre of the novel in debate, whose focus was on the male world (Traditional Bildungsroman), later, we will show its branch about the feminine world (Feminine Bildungsroman), since through it, this subgenre developed from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 21th. Then, we will discuss aspects of the writer’s work and style, located in the English society of the beginning of the 19th century. Finally, we will analyze the novel, emphasizing its historical context, habits and values as initial features of the Bildungsroman. Besides, we will discuss the heroine’s process of formation (important characteristics of the subgenre in focus) and its social criticism (feminist bias). This research shows how the writer used the traditionally male literary aesthetics to debate the female world view of her time.