Gender and Genre in Pride and Prejudice
The words gender and genre have the same root in the Latin word genus meaning kind, sort or class. Genre means of sorting a diverse range of literary forms into kinds on the basis of their specific conventional procedures. The categories of literary genre are loosely defined and often overlap. Besides they evolve as per communal and historical expectations and therefore change through time. Joyce Ulysses, for instance, has very little resemblance to Pride and Prejudice in the way. it is written and yet both belong to the genre of the novel.
Gender is the means of sorting people into kinds – masculine and feminine. It is a way of referring to the communal organisation of the relationship of the sexes. The concept of gender helps to understand that the inequality between the sexes is not the result of biological difference. But is communally produced and examines the various ways in which women suffer systematic social injustice.When used as category of analysis in literary, criticism it seeks to make visible the ways in which literary practice. which is inextricably linked to its social context, participates in the civic productions of gender relations. Read More
