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The 19th Century British Literature 司各特（Sir Walter Scott 代表作： Ivanhoe The Black Dwarf The Tapestried Chamber My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror Rob Roy Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time. Scott had a great influence on such American writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. His novels remain popular today, and several have been the subjects of Hollywood films. 中文名： 简·奥斯汀 外文名： Jane Austen 国籍： 英国 出生地： 英国斯蒂文顿小镇 出生日期： 1775年12月16日 逝世日期： 1817年7月18日 职业： 小说家 主要成就:写了很多脍炙人口的世界 名著 代表作品：《理智与情感》 《傲慢与偏见》 《爱玛》《劝导》 The comment of Jane Austen Virginia Woolf called Austen “the most perfect artist among women.” 批评家艾德蒙·威尔逊说：“一百多年来，英国曾发生过几次趣味上的革命。文学口味的翻新影响了几乎所有作家的声望，唯独莎士比亚与简·奥斯丁是经久不衰。 ” Austen --- Neoclassicism literary period. Her works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion, the Austen’s themes, structure and style best fit the Neoclassical sense of responsibility, good manners and clear judgment over the romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality. Much of Austen’s fiction is in direct response to the excesses of popular literature of her day --- sentimentalism 感情主义 , melodrama 戏剧性事件 and the gothic 哥特式 novel. Style of Jane Austen Her fictional world: She called her work “small square two inches of ivory”. In her little world there are country gentlemen and ladies together with snobs, bores and social “climbers”, “three or four families in a village”. She wrote about parish life with calls, walks, picnics, conversations, parties, balls, marriages no great events: Napoleonic war and Industrial Revolution left no trace . First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen‘s most popular novel. It portrays life in the genteel（上流社会的） rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet whose liveliness a