Sanditon

Sanditon (1817) also known as Sand and Sandition is an unfinished novel by the British novelist Jane Austen. In Sanditon, Austen explored her interest in the verbal construction of a society by means of a town – and a set of families – that is still in the process of being formed. The manuscript for Sanditon was originally titled "The Brothers," likely after the Parker brothers in the story. After her death, her family renamed it "Sanditon." The ... more

Sanditon (1817) also known as Sand and Sandition is an unfinished novel by the British novelist Jane Austen. In Sanditon, Austen explored her interest in the verbal construction of a society by means of a town – and a set of families – that is still in the process of being formed. The manuscript for Sanditon was originally titled "The Brothers," likely after the Parker brothers in the story. After her death, her family renamed it "Sanditon." The original manuscript includes only the first eleven chapters of the story. The people of “modern Sanditon” (pg 22), as Austen calls it, have moved out of the “old house – the house of [their] forefathers” (22) and are busily constructing a new world in the form of a modern seaside commercial town (based on Eastbourne). The town is less of an actual reality than it is an ideal of the inhabitants – one that they express in their descriptions. These inhabitants have a conception of the town’s identity and of the way in which this identity should... less