1、,Jane Austens brief introduction,Introduce by-康欢欢,Jane Austen,My favorite female novelist,Jane Austens Life,Read a lot,writing at an early age,six novels,never married,died in 1817,42 years old,Austens Home,LIFE,Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, n
2、ear Basingstoke, in Hampshire. She was the seventh child of eight, and her family was close, affectionate, and lively. She lived most of her life among the same kind of people about whom she wrote. Her lifelong companion and confidant was her older and only sister, Cassandra.,Dozens of relatives and
3、 friends widened Austens social experiences beyond her immediate family. The Austens were devoted readers of novels at a time when reading novels was regarded as a questionable activity. They also provided a delighted audience for Janes youthful comic pieces, and later for her novels.,Jane had almos
4、t no formal education, but she read extensively and critically. At age 13 she was already writing amusing and instructive parodies and variations on 18th-century literaturefrom sentimental novels to serious histories. By the time she was 23 years old, Austen had written three novels: Elinor and Mari
5、anne, First Impressions, and Susan, which were early versions of, respectively, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Northanger Abbey (1818). A fragment, Lady Susan, which scholars date between 1793 and 1795, most likely also belongs to this period, but it was not published
6、until 1871.,In 1801 the family moved to the town of Bath. After Janes father died in 1805, Jane, Cassandra, and their mother moved several times, eventually settling in 1809 in the village of Chawton, very near Steventon. Austen lived and wrote there for the last eight years of her life. Living a qu
7、iet life in the countryside, she kept her eyes steadily upon the people and incidents about her, and wrote about the small world she lived in. Austen never married, but her social life was active and she had suitors and romantic dreams.,The “cottage” in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the las
8、t eight years of her life, now Jane Austens House Museum.,Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral(温切斯特大教堂).,The “cottage” in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austens House Museum.,Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral(温切斯特大教堂).,Early in
9、1816, Jane Austen began to feel unwell. She ignored her illness at first and continued to work and to participate in the usual round of family activities. By the middle of that year, her decline was unmistakable to Austen and to her family, and Austens physical condition began a long, slow, and irre
10、gular deterioration culminating in her death the following year. The majority of Austen biographers rely on Dr. Vincent Copes tentative 1964 retrospective diagnosis and list her cause of death as Addisons disease(爱迪生氏病). However, her final illness has also been described as Hodgkins lymphoma（何杰金氏病）.
11、 Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817, at the age of 41.,Thank you for watching,THANK YOU！,Table of contents,A brief comment on J. Austens Novels The theme of her works Austens style,Assessment,Critics included Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett Browning who found her work limited. Generall
12、y speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in 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 c
13、lear-sighted judgment over the romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality.,She herself compared her work to a fine engraving made upon a little piece of ivory only two inches square. The comparison is true. The ivory surface is small enough, but the woman who made drawings of human life on it
14、is a real artist. All of Austens novels were originally published anonymously. Several of them went through two editions in her lifetime. Pride and Prejudice was particularly praised, and Emma (1816) received a favorable review from English writer Sir Walter Scott, who was a prominent literary figur
15、e of the time.,INTRODUCTION,Jane Austen, English novelist, noted for her witty studies of early-19th-century English society. With detailed descriptions, Austen portrayed the quiet, day-to-day life of members of the upper middle class. Her works combine romantic comedy with social satire and psychol
16、ogical insight.,About Her Works,Jane Austen began writing around the age of twelve. Her works were later published anonymously due to the prejudice again women writers then. Sense and Sensibility, her first novel, tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs, but Pride and Prejudice, origi
17、nally drafted as “First Impressions“ in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austens works and Northanger Abbey satirizes those popular Gothic romances of the late 18th century. Those are her first three novels in the period from 1795 to 1798, but it took her more than 15 years to find a publisher.,
18、Influence from Fielding, Richardson and Fanny Burney (Madame DArblay). Pride and Prejudice from a phrase in Burneys Cecilia. Juvenilia: humorous parodies of the literature of the day1795 to 1799: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey (at the early period, the titles were El
19、inor and Marianne, First Impressions, and Susan respectively). Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion were published posthumously.,Literary Career,Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感,Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen that was first published in 1811. It was the first of Austens novels to be publi
20、shed, under the pseudonym “A Lady.“ The novel has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most notably in Ang Lees 1995 version.,Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见,The book mainly tells the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.,Pr
21、ide and Prejudice First Impressions Major characters: Elizabeth Jane Lydia Charlotte,Darcy,Bingley,Wickham,Collins,24,Three types of characters according to their different attitudes towards marriage: 1) those who would marry for material wealth and social position (e.g. Charlotte) 2) those who woul
22、d marry just for beauty and passion(e.g. Lydia),25,3) those who would marry for true love with a consideration of the partners personal merit as well as his economical and social status(e.g. Elizabeth),26,3. Artistic features,Though living in the Romantic period, Austen is generally regarded as a re
23、alistic novelist. Major themes: stories of love and marriage (the country middle class life) Language: simple and easy Sense of humor and irony,27,Characteristics of Her Works,1.Jane Austens main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbor
24、s. 2.Stories of love and marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major 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. 5. S
25、he keeps the balance between fact and form.,The Theme,The first theme is pride and prejudice. Another theme is love and marriage.,She believed that satisfying marriage was based on money and social position and that marrying women should attach more importance to reason than to emotion. Characterize
26、d by her realistic style of cordiality and exquisiteness as well as her skill of humor and irony, her works were especially interesting and optimistic and therefore unique at a time when sentimental and Gothic novels （“哥特式”） were published in large numbers.,Jane Austen, the great woman novelist in B
27、ritain, described the love and marriage of the middle class women of her time.,Austens Style,Austen was a writer of the 18th-century: she holds the ideals of the landlord class in politics, religion and moral principles; and her work show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over pa
28、ssion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgment over the Romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality. She expresses her works as a criticism of life and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind. She shows contemptuous feelings toward snobbery, stupidity, worldliness and vulgarity through subtle satire and irony. In style, she is a neoclassicism advocator, upholding those traditional ideas of order, reason, proportion and gracefulness in novel writing.,
