Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and a...Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and all kinds of people living around; the basic theme of her most works was love between young men and women. These works not only inherited the traditional realism but also brought the climax of the works of realism in the 19th century, which blew a fresh breeze for the British literature in the early age the 19th century. All these had made a big difference of the development of English literature history. Persuasion was the last full-length novel of Jane Austin, in which she carefully described a nearly perfect female, Anne Eliot, who was beautiful and knowledgeable, and her love story with Wentworth. This paper will discuss Austen＂ s ideas of love and marriage and reasons of them mainly by analyzing Persuasion.展开更多
文摘Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and all kinds of people living around; the basic theme of her most works was love between young men and women. These works not only inherited the traditional realism but also brought the climax of the works of realism in the 19th century, which blew a fresh breeze for the British literature in the early age the 19th century. All these had made a big difference of the development of English literature history. Persuasion was the last full-length novel of Jane Austin, in which she carefully described a nearly perfect female, Anne Eliot, who was beautiful and knowledgeable, and her love story with Wentworth. This paper will discuss Austen＂ s ideas of love and marriage and reasons of them mainly by analyzing Persuasion.
