emma ended up with mr martin with jane austen.
who does emma end up with jane austen?
mr martin
ian watt in his 1957 book "the rise of the novel" argued that 18th century british literature was characterized by a dichotomy between either novels that were told from the first person and novels from the third person; the significance of austen rested according to watt in her ability to combine both subjective and objective tendencies in her books though her use of free indirect discourse. another influential work was wayne booth's 1961 book "the rhetoric of fiction", in which he offered a detailed study of "emma", which he argued was told from three points of view; emma's, mr. knightley's and the unnamed narrator. booth argued that austen adopted this three-fold narration because emma is in many ways an unlikable character, a spoiled and immature busybody, and austen had to find a way to make her likable and engaging to the reader. booth's book was widely praised for the way in which he highlighted how a moral problem (emma's character) was turned into an aesthetic problem (how to tell the story while keeping its protagonist likable enough to engage the reader's sympathy), and has been the basis of much austen scholarship since. critics like graham hough have pointed out that the morality of the characters in "emma" is related to the diction of the characters, with those closest to the narrator having the best character, and in this reading mr. knightley has the best character. a. walton ktiz argued that the aspect of the novel of "knightley as the standard" prevents the irony of "emma" from becoming a cynical celebration of feminine manipulation, writing that austen's use of free indirect discourse allowed the reader to understand emma mind without becoming limited by it.
reception history of jane austen
bullet::::- "bright summer night" - inspired by "a midsummer night's dream" by william shakespeare









































bullet::::- "carmilla" - based on "carmilla" by j. sheridan le fanu









































bullet::::- "dashwood days" - based on "sense and sensibility" by jane austen









































bullet::::- "dashwood diaries" - based on "sense and sensibility" by jane austen









































bullet::::- "east and west" - based on "north and south" by elizabeth gaskell









































bullet::::- "elinor and marianne take barton" - based on "sense and sensibility" by jane austen









































bullet::::- "emma approved" – jane austen's "emma"









































bullet::::- "the emma project" - jane austen's "emma"









































bullet::::- "emma wood" - jane austen's "emma"
list of modernized adaptations of old works