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Work #817 · Mid

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
1796-97 (drafted as First Impressions); 1813 (published) · English
Regency comic-romantic novel · Late-Enlightenment / Regency English fiction

Austen's 1813 comic-romantic novel — the Bennet family, Mr Darcy, and the moral education of Elizabeth

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Attribute Pride and Prejudice (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Pride and Prejudice

The social time of Regency seasons and visits.

Space

Pride and Prejudice

The English country house and surrounding parish.

Matter

Pride and Prejudice

The embodied dance, dress, and house.

Observer

Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet revising her judgments.

Energy

Pride and Prejudice

Energies of courtship and moral revision.

Information

Pride and Prejudice

The free-indirect-style window onto consciousness.

Internal Tensions

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Pride and Prejudice

Austen's Pride and Prejudice: foundational for the novel of manners; central reference for the moral-comic English fictional tradition.