6th weekJane_Austen 英美文学赏析 教学课件.pptVIP

Life Jane Austen (1775—1817) was born in a country clergymans family . She was educated at home with her sister and never married. In her lifelong career, Jane Austen wrote altogether six complete novels. Her best-known books include Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen （1775～1817） English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. Her Position in English Literature One of the few novelists who have managed to satisfy the requirements in the art of novel writing; Ranked among the truly great British novelists. Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius, describing her work to her nephew Edward as That little bit (two inches wide) of ivory, in which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor. “Miniature on 2 inches of ivory.” “2 寸象牙上的雕刻” Virginia Woolf (弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫)calls her: “The most perfect artist among women”  Jane Austen’s Quotes. “A lady‘s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony结婚 in a moment.” “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” “An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”  摄政式风格——时尚历史 Jane Austen lived and wrote in the very early nineteenth century, also known as the Regency period, and thats when her novels were set. The story of Pride and Prejudice took place in the time of the Regency in Britain. The Regency Period 摄政时期 The Regency period in the United Kingdom is the period between 1811 and 1820, when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son, later George IV, was instated to be his proxy as Pri