Scarica Jane Austen life and novels e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, a small village in the south-west of England where her father was rector of the church. The sixth of seven children, she spent her short, uneventful life within the circle of her very close, affectionate family, and her lifelong, inseparable companion was her sister Cassandra who, like she, never married. She was educated at home by her father, and showed an interest in literature and writing very early. Her earliest writings date from 1787: since then on she produced a large output of prose and, between 1795 and 1796, she completed Elinoe and Marianne, which would become the basis of Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, and First Impressions which, later revised, became Pride and prejudice, published in 1813. In 1798 she wrote North-anger Abbey which was published posthumously. When her father died, Jane, her sister and mother settled at Chawton, a small country village a few miles from her birthplace. There Jane produced her most mature works: Mansfield Park, Emma, persuasion. She probably died of Addison's disease in Winchester in 1917, and was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Janes fame was well established among her contemporaries. The master of the novel of manners, Jane Austen was inspired by 18th century novelists from whom she learned the insight into the psychology of the characters and the subtleties of the ordinary events of life, like balls, walks, tea parties and visits to friends and neighbors. From Fielding she derived the omniscient narrator and the technique of bringing the character into existence trough dialogue . Her style was characterized by the irony of verbal and situational. She restricted her view to the world of the country gentry which she knew best. The traditional values of these families such as property, decorum, money and marriage, provided the basis of the plots and settings of her novels. They take place in England, there isn't Scotland, Wales, Ireland and or the industrial north of England. She writes about the oldest England based on the possession of land, parks and country houses; in her stories people from different counties get married as a result of growing social mobility. In Austen's world there are gossip, flirts, seductions and adulteries. This happens because the marriage market has produced a range of villains: unscrupulous relatives, seducers, gamblers, social climbers. NOVELS She is a realistic writer. Her novels are all love stories which takes place in the little world of a village. Jane Austen makes a deep psychological analysis and describes her characters with objectivity and often ironic wit. All novels are set in the provincial world of England and characters come up from the middle class. The novels are focused on everyday and real domestic life, and we seldom can find author’s comments. Jane Austen is not sentimental, as a matter of fact she doesn’t like a marriage founded only on a violent passion; a good marriage is to be based on mutual understanding. (The main element is the love, but not passionate and tragic love, but a polite exchanges between the two sexes.) The dialogues are witty and simple, and she often uses the irony. She also gives great importance to moral rules: good manners, sense of duty, generosity. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE The main themes are the love and the marriage. Austen satirized the love because she told about the disperate research of husband at all costs. (whatever the cost) JANE AUSTEN
