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A 5 page essay that examines Lilio's play The London Merchant and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. The writer argues that, with these works, one can see the eighteenth century from two distinct perspectives that are both informative as to ideas about class, social status, and the role that money plays in the societal mix. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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culture, class, and gender. By examining George Lilios play The London Merchant and Jane Austens Northanger Abbey, one can see the eighteenth century from two distinct perspectives that are
both informative as to ideas about class, social status, and the role that money plays in the societal mix. Granted that Austens novel was published in 1818, and, therefore, is
by definition a product of the nineteenth century, it can be argued that Austens ideas were largely formed by the culture of the late seventeenth century. There is no doubt,
however, that Lillos play is distinctly a seventeenth century product. George Lillos play The London Merchant was staged at Southwark in 1746 "at the express desire of a united
body of gentlemen salesmen" (Olaniyan, 1992, p. 33). During this period of history, the merchants, as a class, were widely accepted socially, but only as a group still below the
"unique status" which land conferred on those lucky enough to own it (Olaniyan, 1992). Against the snobbery of the landed gentry. Lillos The London Merchant present the merchant
as a veritable instrument of civilization, "a great Means of civilizing our Nation, and banishing out of it all the remains of ancient Barbarity" (Olaniyan, 1992, p. 33), Early on
in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its happiness" (Act I, scene 1, 16-18)
(Olaniyan, 1992, p. 33). In addition to a glorification of trade and empire and patriotism and peace, other tasks that Lillo takes on in this play is the civilizing
mission of whipping into line the "errant" rest of the society, particularly women and servants (Olaniyan, 1992). In this play, Lillo tells his audience that a "moral tale"
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