Jane Austen时有限爱无界.ppt

1、,Romanticism Period,Poetry,The Lake Poets,The 2nd Generation,William Wordsworth Coleridge Southey (骚塞),George Gordon Byron Percy Bysshe Shelly John Keats,Novel,Prose,Woman Novelists,Historical Novelist,Mrs Aane Radcliff （拉德克利夫人） Jane Austen,Walter Scott (沃尔特司各特),Lamb(兰姆) Hazlitt(哈兹利特) De Quincey (德昆

2、西),Brief introduction to Janes life,Born Family Education Died,on 16 December 1775 at Steventon Rectory , Hampshire A Christian family Her father is a clergyman. She was the younger daughter and the seventh child of family of eight children. She briefly attended boarding school in oxford, Southampto

3、n. But she mainly at home and read a lot of books by herself. on 18 July 1817 (aged41)at Winchester, Hampshire,Her notable works,Of her eight novels, only four of appeared in her life time: Sense and Sensibility (1811) , Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815). Northanger Abbe

4、y and Persuasion came out after her death. The Watsons and Sanditon were left unfinished.,Styles of her works,Parody and burlesque Irony Free indirect speech Conversation and language Realism Romance,Features of her novels,Her novels always have a happy ending, however, the stories have complicated

5、plots. Austens work has a very narrow literary field. She is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and woman in love. Her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire ,as can be seen from her characterization of Mr. Bonnet in Pride and Prejudice. The theme of her novel

6、s is love and marriage .,Her love experiences,As Jane was finishing “ Elinor and Marianne,”爱莉诺与玛丽安 she was attracting the attention of several suitors. But Jane had no interest in them. When Austen was twenty, Tom Lefroy, a nephew of neighbors, visited Steventon. He had just finished a university de

7、gree and was moving to London to train as a barrister. He is very gentlemanlike, good-looking and pleasant. She fell in love in Lefroy. However, her parents wanted her to marry rich Mr. Heartley, whose fortune did not tempt her. She rejected his proposal. Marriage was impractical, as both Lefroy and

8、 Austen must have known. Neither had any money, and he was dependent on a great-uncle in Ireland to finance his education and establish his legal career. If Tom Lefroy later visited Hampshire, he was carefully kept away from the Austens, and Jane Austen never saw him again. Later, she lived a quiet

9、and comfortable life and she never married all life .,Classic words,It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. A ladys imagination is very rapid; it jumps from a

10、dmiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.,View of marriage,She pointed out emphatically economic consideration is the bonds of

11、 wedlock and love. She said marriage is not determined by property and family status; it is unwise to marry without money, but it is wrong to marry for money; the marriage settled by love is happy and ideal. Austens view of marriage was progressive, advocated by her focus on the equality between men

12、 and women. She emphasized marriage should be of equal importance both by love and by economic consideration but love plays the guiding role. She revealed the connotation of marriage. She mercilessly criticized the patriarchy and the view of marriage of her time.,Comments on Jane,Jane Austen is a writer of the 18th century, though she lives in the 19th century, England. She holds the ideal of the landlord class in politics, religion and moral principles. Her works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of re