Dave Mayuri P.
M.
A. English SEM 2
Roll no. 13
Paper no. 5 The Romantic
literature
Assignment topic: Austen’s works – themes, subject, text
Submitted Department of English M.K.B.U.
Jane
Austen Works
-: Introduction of Jane Austen:-

Jane Austen
was born on December 16, 1775, at Steven ton rectory in Hampshire, England. Her
father Reverend George Austen (1731-1805) was the rector at Steventon.in 1764;
he married Cassandra Leigh Austen [1739-1827] who was from a patrician family. Jane
Austen was the youngest of George and
Cassandra’s eight children. She had six brother and one
sister .The family was tightly-knit, and Jane was particularly close to her sister,
Cassandra and her brother, Henry. Who would later become her literary agent?
George and Cassandra Sr. sent Cassandra and Jane (who was only 8years old at the time)
to oxford and Southampton to be educated. However, after Jane nearly died
during on outbreak of typhus as their boarding school, both girls returned home
to continue their studies. From 1785 to 1786, Jane and Cassandra attended the
reading ladies boarding school where they studied French, spelling needle work,
music, and dancing economic hardships forced the girls to return home once
again. Their father maintained a large library and indulged his daughter s
curiosity with plenty of reading material. As a result, Jane and Cassandra
continued to develop their literary talent despite their lack of a formal
education.
Begging in her ten years Austen wrote poems, stories
and comic pieces for the amusement of her family. She complied several of the
pieces she wrote between 1787 and 1793 into three bound notebooks, which
scholars now refer to as Austen’s
“juvenilia” Austen expressed an interest in drama and comedy ; she often staged
theoretical productions at home with her siblings. As she continued to experiment
with writing, Austen became adapt at parodying the sentimental century novel.
Among Jane Austen’s early work is a comic novel with the deliberately
misspelled title “Love and friendship” a satire of the “history of England”,
and “Lady Susan”, an epistolary work. During this time, Austen also began to
sketch out ideas for novel that would later become “Sense and Sensibility.
In 1795, Austen met Tom Leroy the
nephew of her neighbor at Stevenson. In her letters to Cassandra, Austen wrote
about spending a great deal of time with Leroy and hinted at her romantic feeling for him.
Unfortunately, a
marriage between then was impractical, and Leroy’s family soon sent him away.
After the conclusion of her brief romance with Leroy, Austen began work on a
second novel called first impressions which would later became “Pride and
Prejudice”, after that Austen began to revise her initial outline for sense and
sensibility and developed “Northanger Abbey”. A satire of gothic genre.
The Austen family resided at Stevenson until
1801, when reverend Austen announced his retirement from the ministry. He then
moved the family to Bath. Jane was unhappy about leaving her childhood home,
which resulted in sudden decreases in her productivity. During her time at Bath
Austen only made minimal revision to her draft of Northanger Abbey and started
(but soon abandoned) a fourth novel.
While in bath, Austen also
received her only marriage proposal; from Harris Biggs -wither, the younger
brother of a family friend and an oxford graduate who was six years Austen’s
junior. Biggs- wither, was supposedly
unremarkable both physically and intellectually, but his considerable fortune
made him an attractive bachelor. Jane Austen initially accepted his proposal,
but changed her mind the following day and rescinded her promise. Turning down
a marriage proposal was significant decision for a woman during. This time
period, as a marriage was the only way Jane would have been able again
independence from her family. Marrying big-wither would also have allowed Jane
to provide a home for her sister, Cassandra and could even have helped Austen’s
brothers in their efforts to secure better careers.
After George Austen’s
death in 1805, Jane her mother and her sister had to move in with her brother
Francis because of their unstable financial position. In 1809 they moved to a
cottage at chaw ton where Jane’ wealthy brother Edward had an estate. Life in
chaw ton, where Jane’s wealthy brother Edward
had estate. Life in chaw ton was much quitter then it had been in bath, which
gave Jane Austen the opportunity to write more often. While living at chaw ton,
four of her novels were published anonymously; “Sense and Sensibility” in 1811. “Pride and Prejudice” in 1813. Mansfield Park” in 1814. And “Emma in 1815.
In July of 18, Austen completed the first chaff of her next novel, entitled “The Eliot’s.” It would later be
published as “Persuasion.”
In early 1816, Austen
suffered on ones of illness that culminated in her death the following years.
most biographers believe that she suffered from Addison’s disease. Despite her illness, Austen
continued to write revising the ending of “The Eliot’s” and starting works on
“sedition”. She died at the age of 41 on July 8, 1817 and was buried at the
famous Winchester cathedral. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published
posthumously cassette in 1817. However, Austen was unable to finish “sedition”
before her death.
Austen novel mostly
focus on themes of courtship and marriage. However .her works stand out because
of sharp satirical depiction of late 18th century English society
.she is still one of the most studied and influential novelist of her time largely
because she was creating strong unusual female characters during this period
known as the regency period .and also for her mastery of from satire and irony.in 1833 publisher
Richard Bentley published the first collected addition of Austen’s novels
.since then her works have been continually in print .
As with May
great authors Austen died before she gained significant public recognition
although her novels were fashionable with members of British society. like
prince regent critic largely ignored her work.in the daughter of the prince of
regent critics largely ignore her work.in the 20 century Austen’s novels began
to attract attention from literary scholars who conducted serious academic
studies on her texts. However the past several decades there have been more than
200 literary adaptions of Austen’s novels as well as numerous film versions
.
.
Work by Jane Austen
1. ‘’Emma.’’(1815)
2. ‘’Mansfield park.’’(1814)
3. ‘’North
anger Abby. ‘’
4. “Persuasion.”
5. “Pride
and Prejudice.”(1813)
6. “Sense and Sensibility.”(1811)
1. Emma: - Emma was first published by
Jane Austen and first published by john Marry in December of 1815. It was the
last of Austen’s novels to be published before her death, and like her earlier
works, was published anonym sly. Shortly before publication of “Emma”
Austen.
2. “Mansfield park”:- Mansfield park
considered the authors most ambitious novel, was published anonymously, as were
all of Jane Austen’s novel in 1814. While sense and sensibility. And Pride and
Prejudice are considered, as one critic remarks.
3. “Northanger Abbey”:- Jane Austen
wrote “North anger Abbey” while she residing in her childhood home in Stevenson
England, but the novel is largely set in the resort town of Bath, where Austen
visited for a month vacation in 1797.originally entitled Susan.
4. “Persuasion”:- Persuasion is Jane
Austen’s last completed novel. She began work on it in the summer of 1815, and
completed it by the summer 1816. The work was published with Northanger Abbey
posthumously in December of 1817. Six months after Austen’s….
5. Pride & Prejudice..
Pride & Prejudice is Jane Austen
Second novel, Publish in 1813. Some scholars consider it one of her most mature
novels. Austen began writing Pride & Prejudice under the title finest
impression in 1796. At the age of twenty one.
6. Sense and sensibility
Sense and
sensibility was Austen’s first published novel. Its first edition came out in
three volumes in 1811. And the Novel was reasonably well liked and success full.
These was much to the relief of Austen,
who financed the printing of the book.
-: Themes in Jane Austen’s:-
Themes of
love and marriage.
-: Pride
and Prejudice:-
One of the major themes of the novel ‘Pride and prejudice’ is
love and marriage. Besides the marriage of Mrs. and Mr. Benet, four marriages take place in the
novel, mostly emanating from the love between each other. More ever, the main
concern of the novel is courtship and love , particularly the coming close of
the hero, Darcy and the heroine,
Elizabeth by stage.
The first
marriage that attracts our attention is that on Mrs. Benet and managed her.
This helped before the start of the novel. But Mr. Benet was not a fit match
for Mr. Benet. She is nervous ridiculous lady but Mr. Benet is a conscious and
sensible man. So they are people apart in their thoughts and temperaments.
Thus, this marriage is the worst examples of its kind in the novel.
The
second examples of marriage in the novel are that of Charlotte Lucas and Mr.
Collins .Mr. Collins is an affluent but stupid clergyman. He first proposes to
Charlotte Lucas and she accepts his proposal because she wants ‘social economic’
security. So, this is marriage of conveniences, not a marriage of love.
The third examples of marriage in the
novel, is that of Lydia and Wickham. Wickham is a philanderer and cheat. He
cheats Lydia in his meet and she falls
in love with him. Not only that, she elopes away with him. Lydia action is
bound to bring disgrace to the family. It is Darcy who bibles Wickham and makes
him Mary Lydia and thus save the family of Mr. Benet from disgrace.
The
fourth examples marriage is that of Jane and
bigly . they truly love each other. Boringly is a well to do young man.
He marries Jane without dowry .this is
an example of a successful marriage.
The fifth
and final example of marriage is that of Elizabeth and Darcy. It is an example
of an idol marriage based on true understanding and cross examinations as their
love develops slowly, steadily of and after carefully observation of each
other. Before marriage, they have
encountered deep differences and critical confrontations resulting from the
preoccupation of the pride by Elizabeth. They get married only after Darcy has
given up her prejudice. The two try to understand each other and learn that
they will be able to leads a life and learn that they will life be able to lead
a life of social and economic security. There is an example of an ideal love.
- : Themes
of Sense and Sensibility. :-
- : Themes of
love and Marriage. :-
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
These
opening statements strike the keynote of Jane Austen’s themes
in novel –marriage in a society governed by economic considerations; as indicated
by the words Fortune.
Jane
Austen’s usual theme is love and marriage.in all her novels. They are beautiful
girls waiting for really eligible bachelors to get married to them.
In Sense
and Sensibility There are love stories of:-
Eleanor –
Edward.
Edward – Lucy.
Lucy – Robert.
Marianne –
Willoughby.
Willoughby
–Eliza.
Marianne – Colonel
Brandon.
The love
stories are related to the chief characters of the novel. Other stories are
co-related to them. These love stories provide interest to the readers. They
reveal the characters mind-set. Their understanding, faithfulness and
psychological aspects are woven with them. Lovers are tasted and rewarded. They
fail and succeed but they become an instrument to give us a social background
of time.
In sense
and sensibility there is a little misunderstanding & delay in Eleanor and
Edwards’s marriage. Edward was believed in the love with Lucy. When Lucy declared
that she is going to marry with Mr. Farrar’s. but actually she married to
Robert Farrar as she married to Robert Farrar as she gradually falls in love with
him.
Marianne younger sisters of Eleanor falls in love with Willoughby was a
showy and literary kinds of a person. He flirts with Marianne. For her marriage
of Willoughby proved a great shock & medium to realize reality. Finally,
she marries to colonel.
However,
Jane Austen’s characters are Conway of the contemporary events. The motto of
Austen is to provide handsome husband to girls they do not have any, deep
spiritual insight or religious attitude, marriage & love is the central
these both the novels.
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