오스틴의 비(非) 장남들: 오스틴 소설에서 유산 상속과 자녀 간의 위계 문제 가르치기

• 영문명: Austen’s Younger Sons: Teaching Inheritance Laws and Sibling Hierarchy in Austen’s Novels
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 박하정(Hajeong Park)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제20집 3호, 5~27쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.12.30

영문 초록

The inheritance system depicted in Austen’s novels has been discussed in the classroom in relation to the author’s preoccupation with economic conditions of women and her acute critique of the patrilinial system which privileged sons’ and limited daughters’ inheritance of family estates and landed properties. Drawing attention to the portrayal of younger sons in Austen’s novels, however, this essay offers a new teaching method of examining the ways in which the practices of primogeniture and entail affected younger sons as well as daughters. The essay begins by showing how landowners and new bourgeois parents started to adopt patriarchal laws of inheritance, and then investigates how this patriarchal system produced sibling hierarchy and thus the potential conflicts of interests between the eldest son and younger brothers. The essay argues that daughters and younger sons face similar problems of dependence and lack of autonomy under the patriarchal inheritance system. At the same time, complication arises when the first-born son becomes dissipate and morally flawed, not deserving the privileges of the heir, or refuses to provide financial support to his siblings. While emphasizing in her earlier novels that the heir as the proprietor of family estates should be educated to be socially responsible and morally respectful, Austen calls into question in her last novel Persuasion the traditional value system itself based on inherited title, estates, and lands.

목차

I. 서론

II. 장자상속제와 한정상속제의 역사: 법과 관행

III. 한정상속제와 상속자와 딸들의 갈등

IV. 장자상속제와 형제 간의 위계와 갈등

V. 결론

키워드

제인 오스틴 상속제도 장자상속제 한정상속제 형제 간의 위계 자녀 간의 위계 남자 동생들 Jane Austen inheritance laws primogeniture entail fraternal hierarchy sibling hierarchy younger sons