Meaning of Sanditonian | Babel Free

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An inhabitant of the fictional town of Sanditon from the unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) by the English writer Jane Austen.

Examples

“It is fitting that all roads in the town Mr. Parker has “planned and built, and praised and puffed” (328) seem to lead to the circulating library, because Sanditonians like Parker, who has built on sand, seem immensely willing to invest in empty convention—in signs in the place of substance. […] Austen is being somewhat disingenuous here. She herself feels free to put novel slang into the mouth of a Sanditonian like Sir Edward Denham; what Anna has not learned from her aunt’s fictions, perhaps, is that in that context novel slang is always in virtual quotation marks. It is never used, and never to be read, “straight.””

“The party was to consist of Mr and Mrs Parker, Charlotte, Abigail, Diana, Susan and Arthur, Mrs Griffiths, the Miss Beauforts, the three Hollises and several Sanditonians who had been deemed suitable either by the nature of their ailments or the size of their purses.”

“As in so many other passages in this manuscript, Jane Austen successfully engages the reader through use of an ambiguous narrative voice, starting the chapter in a sententious tone reminiscent of the opening lines of Pride and Prejudice, which are Mrs. Bennet’s mantra. That every neighborhood should have a great lady, if from the author, drips with a sardonic tone. If from Mr. Parker, the inner narrator, it smacks of sycophancy. And if from Lady Denham, who has been reminding Sanditonians for a long time now that she has a special place in the community, it is merely self-serving.”

“Then there is Miss Lambe, about whom I have written in detail elsewhere: silent, chilly and tender, with the enormous fortune that throws the Sanditonians into such an eager flurry prior to the mysterious woman of colour’s arrival in the seaside town.”

“If we want to understand the Sanditonians’ resistance to medical professionals, we will need to understand what forms of care they endorse instead, and why their specifically convalescent population required a different sort of approach.”

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