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1、A Brief History of English Literature,She understood the smallness of life to perfection. She was a great artist, equal in her small sphere to Shakespeare. Alfred Tennyson,Jane Austen (1775-1817),She spent most of her time at home, but she was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as w
2、ell as through her own reading.,She started to write for family amusement as a child.,Jane Austens Life,educate at home read a lot uneventful,writing at an early age,six novels,never married,died in 1817, 42 years old,Harris Bigg-Wither-a childhood friend,Harris Bigg-Wither, the brother of her child
3、hood friends proposed marriage after his graduation from Oxford and Austen accepted. Harris was not attractivehe was a large, plain-looking man who spoke little, stuttered when he did speak, was aggressive in conversation. However the marriage offered many practical advantages to Austen and her fami
4、ly. He was the heir to extensive family estates located in the area where the sisters had grown up. With these resources, Austen could provide her parents a comfortable old age. By the next morning, Austen realised she had made a mistake and withdrew her acceptance.,About Her Works,Jane Austen began
5、 writing around the age of twelve. Her works were later published anonymously due to the prejudice again women writers then.,Characteristics of her Works,1. Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.,Cha
6、racteristics of her Works,2. Jane Austens main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors.,Characteristics of her Works,Stories of love and marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major
7、 characters.,Characteristics of her Works,3. Jane Austens work has a very narrow literary field. 4. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.,Other Features,Jane Austen is successful in the employment of irony and frequent use of witty and delightful dialogues .,Her d
8、iction is graceful, elegant and refined . Her novels are famous for their witty conversation and omnipresent humor.,Austens Artistic Merits,1. The most striking part of Jane Austen and her novels is her seeming obliviousness to the political upheavals(大动荡) in the outside world of her time. 2. Jane A
9、usten is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.,3. Jane Austen is successful in the employment of irony and frequent use of witty and delightful dialogues. Subtle irony and mild satire are prevailing through all he
10、r novels. It is this satire that makes her novels still of interest to us today.,4. Jane Austens main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors. Stories of love and marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are
11、 always taken as the major characters.,5. In style, she is a neoclassicism advocator, upholding those traditional ideas of order, reason, and gracefulness in novel writing. 6. Characters in her novels are abound in wit, humor and charm because of her subtle observation, deep psychological analysis a
12、nd minute description.,Assessment,Jane Austen has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity, and she has been regarded by many critics as one of the greatest of all novelists.,Assessment,Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in
13、the nineteenth century. She holds the ideal of the landlord class in politics, religion and her works show clearly her firm in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgment over the romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality.,Aust
14、ens work has a very narrow literary field .She is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love. Austen tries to say that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marry without it. Her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate sa
15、tire.,Assessment,Themes of Austens novels,1. She never touched upon the class conflicts of her time 2. She never focused her novels on war of her time. 3. She restricted her subject matters to a quiet, prosperous, middle-class circle in provincial surroundings. 4. Her novels are about romantic love
16、of the middle-class people.,Major Works of Austen,Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感原名为埃莉诺与玛丽安娜 Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见 Mansfield Park 曼斯菲尔德庄园 Emma 爱玛 Northanger Abbey 诺桑觉寺 Persuasion 劝导,An Analysis on Pride and Prejudice,What is the main idea of the story?,奥斯丁以婚姻为主题并采用讽刺、幽默的笔法细致地描绘了18世纪末19世纪初英国乡镇中产阶级的生活景象。 傲慢与偏见主要通过对话来表现人物性格。小说中的人物各自有着不同的说话风格，具有鲜明的个性，如贝内特太太言辞虚浮夸张、大惊小怪、尖声叫嚷，显得格外俗气，她的女儿伊丽莎白则敢于挑战贵族青年达西，表现出对门第的蔑视，并在谈
