英国文学第九讲简奥斯丁
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broader education. C. She never married, but her social life was active
and she had suitors and romantic dreams.
Portrait of Jane Austen
D. wrote for family amusement as a child. • Very shy about her writing: • father supported and tried to help her get a publisher. E. After her father’s death, living with her sister and mother in
Jane Austen(1775-1817)
a realistic novelist. the first important English woman novelist.
Portrait of Jane Austen
I. Introduction: 1.Austen’s life: A. born in a big family in Steventon, Hampshire. • Her father: a rector. • Living there for 25 years; moved to Bath with her elder sister----old maid. B. was mostly tutored at home, but she received a
Mrs. Bennet’s chief interest in life is to have her five daughters married to rich men, since the family estate will pass on to Mr. Collins.
Southampton. • They moved in 1809 to a large cottage in the village of
Chawton and remained there the rest of her life.
Her life: quiet, comfortable, and uneventful all the way through.
2. Which sentence in the first chapter is the topic sentence of the whole text?
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day. The title Pride and Prejudice refers to the ways in which
The main Concerns of her Novels
• marriage market--the business of getting married. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage.
III. Warming-up questions about
Pride and Prejudice:
1. As the title of the novel suggests, who is blinded by pride, and who is blinded by prejudice? Is the title the theme of the novel?
3. Austen’s writing feature:
• powers of perceptiveness. • Her novels are simply stories of the lives
and thoughts of the commonplace people of the upper middle class in the country.
Her society: well-meaning on the whole, tranquil and decorous (正派得体的）.
Jane Austen’s House at Chawton
4 Most of Jane Austen’s works were written here and now it’s Jane Austen Museum
• Subject matters:
• money and marriage.
• Style:
• clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue, very tight plotting.
• “the little bit of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces litter effect after much labor.”
Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was under the title First Impressions.
1. The Main Plot:
The story centers around the Bennet family---Mr. & Mrs. Bennet and their five grown-up daughters.
2. Jane Austen’s Major Works
• Sense and Sensibility (1811) • Pride and Prejudice (1813) • Mansfield Park (1814) • Emma (1816) • Northanger Abbey (1818) • Persua来自百度文库ion (1818)
and she had suitors and romantic dreams.
Portrait of Jane Austen
D. wrote for family amusement as a child. • Very shy about her writing: • father supported and tried to help her get a publisher. E. After her father’s death, living with her sister and mother in
Jane Austen(1775-1817)
a realistic novelist. the first important English woman novelist.
Portrait of Jane Austen
I. Introduction: 1.Austen’s life: A. born in a big family in Steventon, Hampshire. • Her father: a rector. • Living there for 25 years; moved to Bath with her elder sister----old maid. B. was mostly tutored at home, but she received a
Mrs. Bennet’s chief interest in life is to have her five daughters married to rich men, since the family estate will pass on to Mr. Collins.
Southampton. • They moved in 1809 to a large cottage in the village of
Chawton and remained there the rest of her life.
Her life: quiet, comfortable, and uneventful all the way through.
2. Which sentence in the first chapter is the topic sentence of the whole text?
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day. The title Pride and Prejudice refers to the ways in which
The main Concerns of her Novels
• marriage market--the business of getting married. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage.
III. Warming-up questions about
Pride and Prejudice:
1. As the title of the novel suggests, who is blinded by pride, and who is blinded by prejudice? Is the title the theme of the novel?
3. Austen’s writing feature:
• powers of perceptiveness. • Her novels are simply stories of the lives
and thoughts of the commonplace people of the upper middle class in the country.
Her society: well-meaning on the whole, tranquil and decorous (正派得体的）.
Jane Austen’s House at Chawton
4 Most of Jane Austen’s works were written here and now it’s Jane Austen Museum
• Subject matters:
• money and marriage.
• Style:
• clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue, very tight plotting.
• “the little bit of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces litter effect after much labor.”
Elizabeth and Darcy first view each other. The original version of the novel was under the title First Impressions.
1. The Main Plot:
The story centers around the Bennet family---Mr. & Mrs. Bennet and their five grown-up daughters.
2. Jane Austen’s Major Works
• Sense and Sensibility (1811) • Pride and Prejudice (1813) • Mansfield Park (1814) • Emma (1816) • Northanger Abbey (1818) • Persua来自百度文库ion (1818)