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Jane Austen
1775 - 1817 (Main themes (Focus on everyday life, The setting…
Jane Austen
1775 - 1817
Her father a learned man, rector of a parish
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Main works
Sense and Sensibility
Contrast between two sisters, one endowed with common sense and the other with romantic sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
It focuses on marriage and the intrigues of a mother to marry off five daughters.
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Elizabeth Bennet: she does not conform to the artificial social rules and conventions of the time.
Social differences may be overcome.
She believes in sincere, reciprocal love.
She is witty, acute and self-critical.
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Main themes
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The setting is restricted to provincial England and to limited social classes: gentry, clergy, country middle classes..
Common sense: mutual understanding – calm judgment – decency – good manners – sense of duty – self-control – generosity of heart – tolerance
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