english novel 英国小说简介(简爱、双城记等)

She first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life.
Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
The interrelated issues of financial security and marriage are at the heart of the novel.
Appreciate the language
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Catherine Bennet immature
Jane Bennet,
seeing only the good in others, marries Bingley
Mary Bennet, bookish
Lydia Bennet，
frivolous and headstrong Later elopes with Wickham, causing embarrassment to the whole family
"Please, sir, I want some more." From Oliver Twist
Assessment平价
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. The Prince Regent was an admirer and kept a set of Jane Austen's novels in each of his residences. Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson praised her work and Tennyson, T. B Macaulay and Archbishop Whately compared her to Shakespeare.
Irony反讽
• As in many of Austen’s other novels, irony is employed in Pride and Prejudice as the lens through which society and human nature are viewed. Through the novel, Austen studies social relationships in the limited society of a country neighbourhood and investigates them in detail with an often ironic and humorous eye. Note her presentation of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, for example. Their contrasting temperaments are first shown through their manner of conversation; Mrs. Bennet chatters on while Mr. Bennet counters her talk with mildly sarcastic statements, the mocking tone of which Mrs. Bennet completely misses.
It should be pointed out that the qualities of the title are not exclusively assigned to one or the other of the protagonists; both Elizabeth and Darcy display pride and prejudice."

Critics included Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett Browning who found her work limited. Generally 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 clear-sighted judgment over the romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality.
Jane Bennet
• Mr Bennet • A bookish and intelligent gentleman somewhat withdrawn from society • dislikes the frivolity of his wife and three younger daughters • Love and respect Jane and Elizabeth, two eldest daughters Rather than trying to lead his younger daughters down a more sensible path, he is rather content to laugh at them.
• His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism.
• His novels were heralded（预示） early in his career for their ability to capture the everyday man on paper and thus create a memorable character to whom readers could relate, and envision（想象） as a real person.
Major works
• Oliver Twist 1837-39 Old Curiosity Shop 1840-41 A Christmas Carol 1843 Dombey and Son 1846-48
Major works
David Copperfield 1849-50 Bleak House 1852-53 Hard Times 1854 Little Dorrit 1855-57 A Tale of Two Cities 1859 Great Expectations 1860-61
The two major themes are summed up in the title.
• The title pride and prejudice refers to the ways in which Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other.
Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812–9 June 1870
• pen-name "Boz", • most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, • one of the most popular of all time. • created some of literature‘s most iconic （有代表性的） characters, • with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. • The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print
Pride and Prejudice, originally called First Impressions
The five daughters of the Bennets
Elizabeth Bennet, with liveliness and quick wit, marries Mr. Darcy
Charles Bingley, handsome, good-natured, and wealthy and more popular than his friend Darcy ,who is more intelligent and wealthier but more arrogant
Elizabeth Bennet
Dickensian characters— especially their typically whimsical（古怪的 ）names— are among the most memorable in English literature
They can be believed to be living a life outside the novels that their stories have been continued by other authors.
English novel
Jane Austen
• • • • • • Pride and Prejudice 1796 (Pub. 1813) Sense and Sensibility 1797 (Pub. 1811) Northhanger Abbey 1798 (Pub. 1818) Mansfield Park (Pub. 1814) Emma (Pub. 1815) Persuasion (Pub. 1818)
• 凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认 的真理。
• However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. • 这样的单身汉，每逢新搬到一个地方，四邻八舍 虽然完全不了解他的性情如何，见解如何，可是， 既然这样的一条真理早已在人们心目中根深蒂固， 因此人们总是把他看作自己某一个女儿理所应得 的一笔财产。