The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen

Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann was born in Lithuania. After a short career in contemporary dance and choreography, she studied Lithuanian, French and English literature in Universities of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Neuchatel, Switzerland. She completed her PhD in English literature from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 2017. She now teaches EFL in Switzerland and continues her research.

1. Introduction.- 2. Changing seasons: the cyclical and the linear.- 3. Changing homes: transformations in space and time.- 4. Spatiotemporal movements and psychological change: walking and dancing.- 5. Conclusion.

"In The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen, Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann moves away from conventional studies of the chronology of events or physical locations in literary works and brings forth an analysis of time and space in Austen's finished novels ... . Kaufmann provides insight into the way the cyclicity ... . These cycles interlock and each one marks important moments in the stories." (Layla Ferrández Melero, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 24, 2024)

“In The Architecture of Space-Time in the Novels of Jane Austen, Ruta Baublyté Kaufmann moves away from conventional studies of the chronology of events or physical locations in literary works and brings forth an analysis of time and space in Austen’s finished novels … . Kaufmann provides insight into the way the cyclicity … . These cycles interlock and each one marks important moments in the stories.” (Layla Ferrández Melero, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, January 24, 2024)