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The Encroachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen's Emma

The Encroachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen's Emma Julie Donovan e En Th croachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen E’s mma Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) is remarkable for its narrative stealth. Whi­ le read ers are beckoned down enticingly intricate paths, they miss important details accumulating in almost imperceptible degrees. By the conclusion of the novel we might well be compelled, in the words of Tara Ghoshal Wallace, “to feel very much like inept reader I s.n ” trinsic to such ineptitude and vital to Aust­ en’s plot ting in Emma is Ireland. In one sense Ireland remains at the periphery o ­ f gos sip and conversation in the novel, a remote locale forming a barely discernible presence in Highbury happenings. However, and as this essay argues, Ireland’s marginality in Emma is deceptive. Ireland becomes crucial to a conundrum Emma’s eponymous heroine (and most readers on their first encounter with the text) fails to comprehend. Emma Woodhouse imagines that Jane Fairfax does not go to Ireland because she is besotted with Mr. Dixon, when the ac ­ tual rea son is that she wants to remain with Frank Churchill, to whom she is secretly engaged. Emma misreads Ireland, using it as a site for Jane’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Hibernia Review Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas

The Encroachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen's Emma

Donovan, Julie
New Hibernia Review , Volume 23 (4) – Mar 4, 2020
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Julie Donovan e En Th croachment on Highbury: Ireland in Jane Austen E’s mma Jane Austen’s Emma (1815) is remarkable for its narrative stealth. Whi­ le read ers are beckoned down enticingly intricate paths, they miss important details accumulating in almost imperceptible degrees. By the conclusion of the novel we might well be compelled, in the words of Tara Ghoshal Wallace, “to feel very much like inept reader I s.n ” trinsic to such ineptitude and vital to Aust­ en’s plot ting in Emma is Ireland. In one sense Ireland remains at the periphery o ­ f gos sip and conversation in the novel, a remote locale forming a barely discernible presence in Highbury happenings. However, and as this essay argues, Ireland’s marginality in Emma is deceptive. Ireland becomes crucial to a conundrum Emma’s eponymous heroine (and most readers on their first encounter with the text) fails to comprehend. Emma Woodhouse imagines that Jane Fairfax does not go to Ireland because she is besotted with Mr. Dixon, when the ac ­ tual rea son is that she wants to remain with Frank Churchill, to whom she is secretly engaged. Emma misreads Ireland, using it as a site for Jane’s

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New Hibernia Review – Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas

Published: Mar 4, 2020

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