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1、JaneAusten,ATransitionalWriterintheEnglishLiterature【摘要】简·奥斯汀是英国文学史上18世纪末新古典主义过渡到19世纪初浪漫主义的重要代表作家。本文重点从两方面探讨她的过渡性:一方面从作品的主题看,大部分奥斯汀的小说都反映了人们对婚姻态度及观念的变化;另一方面,从写作风格上看,她的作品以喜剧的形式讽刺社会,令人深思。【关键词】简·奥斯;过渡时期AsennovelistsbegantoappearinEngland.Andsomegiftedenfromth
2、eendofthe18thcenturyto19thcenturymadesomecontributionstothedevelopmentoftheEnglishnovel,erealistslikeCharlesDickens,akepeaceThackeray,etc.JaneAusten(1775-1817)anaturityandhersatiricalfictionsmarkedthetransitionfromthe18th-centuryneoclassicismtothe19th-cent
3、uryromanticismintheEnglishliterature.JaneAustenanfamily.Sheeandpassedallherlifeindoingsmalldomesticdutiesinthecountryside.Sheousnovels,includingSenseandSensibility(1811),PrideandPrejudice(1813),MansfieldPark(1814),Emma(1816),NorthangerAbbey(1818),andPersua
4、sion(1818).Shelivedandicbutalsothepoliticalpoemoreandmoresharp.Consequently,peoplestartedtodoubtandevenlosehopetotheenlighteningthoughtsthateter”ofthesociallife,alsoexperiencedgreatchange.Oneofthemostremarkablechanges,andevenFielding’smasculinesatire.Sothe
5、ents.Undersuchasocialandliteraryenvironment,JaneAustenexertedhertransitionalroleinEnglishliterature.r.Darcy,despitehisgoodlooksandgreatashthebondsoftherationandsocialpressureandmarry.Sothisnovelshoent,foritisjustthankstothedeeplovethatmakesthesetdifferentc
6、lassstatussuccessfullymarry.ThisreflectsthatJaneAusten’screatingthoughtsbeginstochangefromtherationalismtotheromanticism.HerlastnovelPersuasionalsodisplayssuchachange.Therefore,entinthenovelsthatJaneAustenacplishesthetransitionfromtherationalliteraturetoth
7、eromanticliterature.Moreover,herdevelopmentfromrationalismtotheromanticismalsoreflectsinhernearriage.Thatissheadvocatestheonlybaseofmarriageshouldbethetruelove,notthefamilybackgroundsandeconomicbase.ThisvividlyreflectsinthesceneofElizabethBenrefusingMr.Col
8、lins’proposal.r.CollinsproposestoElizabeth,sheanseinyourproposals,buttoacceptthemisabsolutelyimpossible.Myfeelingsineveryrespectforbidit.”Theseinationthatshepreferstokeepsingleinallherliferatherthanto