READER RESPONSE TO AUSTEN’S NOVELS Jane Austen is generally acknowledged to be one of the great English novelists‚ so it is no surprise that her novels have remained continuously in print from her day to the present. Contemporary reviewers found much to praise in them. Reviewing Emma for the Quarterly Review (1816)‚ Sir Walter Scott characterized its strengths and weaknesses: The author’s knowledge of the world‚ and the peculiar tact with which she presents characters that the reader
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Jane Austen Interview Interviewer: We have here with us today the one and only Jane Austen‚ author of Pride and Prejudice which has‚ to date‚ sold over 20 million copies. Welcome‚ Jane. Austen:Thank you‚ its great to be here. Interviewer:For those who haven’t read Pride and Prejudice‚ could you give us an overview of the story? Austen:Well‚ Pride and Prejudice is a novel centring a female protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ forging her way through an established and rigid social hierarchy in the
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Like Character‚ Like Estate In the novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Jane Austen gives more meaning to the estates belonging to each character instead of allowing the reader to only see them as Background information. Austen is able to paint the personalities and values of each character in the minds of the reader by describing the outer appearance as well as the interior of the houses‚ this is applied particularly well to both Mr. Darcy of Pemberley and Lady Catherine of Rosings. Both appear proud and
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acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife.” (Austen 3). With the popularity of the Enlightenment‚ female authors came out of the shadows and started displaying their work for all the world to see. Jane Austen‚ being one of them‚ took a stance on upper class society in 19th Century England‚ by mocking the standards of the elites. By using irony and humor to do so‚ Ms. Austen grabs the reader’s attention‚ by having characters that are relatable to readers in
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Cited: 1 "About Jane Austen" (1 page). August 1999. http://www.smith.edu/english/fall/austen.html. Online. 990802 2 "Letters of Jane Austen – Brabourne Edition (Letters to her sister Cassandra Austen‚ 1796)" (pp 1-15). August 1999. http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablet1.html. Online. 990802 3 "Austen-Mania" (pp1-2). August 1999. http://www.salonmagazine.com/02dec1995/features/austen.html. Online. 990802.
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Mobility is the characteristic of every social system. Social mobility is the movement of individuals‚ families and groups from one social position to another. It may be studied in terms of redistribution of resources and power among the different social strata and its effect on the people involved. In the status societies the social status of the person is determined from his work. Social mobility occurs whenever people move across social class boundaries‚ from one ⌠occupational
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On Characterization in Emma by Jane Austen Introduction Jane Austen‚ one of the distinguished English novelists of the 19th century‚ is indeed so fine an artist and credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Born on December 16‚ 1775‚ the seventh of eight children-six boys and two girls‚ she had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a rector of Steventon in the county of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived
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The financial crisis and recession of 2008 resulted in the loss of millions of jobs‚ stifling upward social mobility; the movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s stratification system to another‚ for millions of American citizens. The loss of millions of jobs‚ industrial jobs going overseas‚ the expansion of low-paying service occupations‚ and the loss of a stable home‚ have all led to millions of lower class and lower-middle class income families struggling to keep the
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Give an account of the connection between education and social mobility as presented in the three texts. All the 3 texts are about Education and social mobility. The big debate is about students who have parents with low incomes. These parents have problems paying for good educations such as oxford university. The prime minister of the UK finds it sad that many clever students won’t have the possibility to get the education they want‚ even though they have the intelligence to go far in life. The
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Jane Austen as a moralist or a realist It is a mistake to see Austen as either a moralist or a realist? No‚ I think these are wholly appropriate and instructive ways of reading her work‚ as long as we keep in mind the fact that they do not exhaust the possibilities of meaning generated by a text like Pride and Prejudice. We need to remember Bakhtin ’s view of the novel form‚ deriving from its origins in popular‚ comic‚ anti-establishment traditions‚ as essentially self-questioning and protean. In
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