jane austen
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- An English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her genius contained much that was masculine, despite her feminine context.
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- 18th-19th century
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- romantic fiction
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- English
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- masculine element in genius
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- novelist
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- authoredPride and Prejudice
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- Jane Austen is credited as the author of the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'.
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- authoredNorthanger Abbey
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- Northanger Abbey is identified as one of the novels written by Jane Austen.
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- authoredPersuasion
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- Persuasion is mentioned as another novel authored by Jane Austen.
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- authoredMansfield Park
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- Mansfield Park is listed among the novels written by Jane Austen.
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- authoredSense and Sensibility
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- Sense and Sensibility is another novel attributed to Jane Austen.
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- authoredEmma
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- Emma is recognized as one of Jane Austen's novels, often compared in popularity and quality to 'Pride and Prejudice'.
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- authoredPride and Prejudice
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- Jane Austen is the author of the novel Pride and Prejudice, which is critically discussed in the text.
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- Miss Austen has shown in working out the story, I for one should put_ Pride and Prejudice _far lower if it did not contain what seem to me the very masterpieces of Miss Austen’s humour and of her faculty of character-creation
- exemplifiesAusten's Humour
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- Jane Austen's writing is characterized by a subtle and delicate sense of humour.
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- The characteristics of Miss Austen’s humour are so subtle and delicate that they are, perhaps, at all times easier to apprehend than to express
- exemplifiesAusten's Character Creation
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- Jane Austen possesses a remarkable faculty for creating characters, which is highlighted as a masterpiece.
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- masterpieces of Miss Austen’s humour and of her faculty of character-creation--masterpieces who may indeed admit John Thorpe, the Eltons, Mrs. Norris, and one or two others to their company, but who, in one instance certainly, and perhaps in others, are still superior to them
- is contrasted withJonathan Swift
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- Jane Austen's mildness is contrasted with the 'savagery' of Jonathan Swift in terms of literary temperament.
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- contrast the good nature of Addison with the savagery of Swift, the mildness of Miss Austen with the boisterousness of Fielding and Smollett
- is contrasted withHenry Fielding
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- Jane Austen's mildness is contrasted with the 'boisterousness' of Henry Fielding.
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- the mildness of Miss Austen with the boisterousness of Fielding and Smollett, even with the ferocious practical jokes
- is contrasted withTobias Smollett
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- Jane Austen's mildness is contrasted with the 'boisterousness' of Tobias Smollett.
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- the mildness of Miss Austen with the boisterousness of Fielding and Smollett, even with the ferocious practical jokes
- is preceded byFanny Burney
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- Fanny Burney is identified as an immediate predecessor to Jane Austen in literary context.
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- her immediate predecessor, Miss Burney, allowed without very much protest
- is compared toLydia Bennet
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- A hypothetical 'ladylike and intelligent Lydia Bennet' is imagined as someone who could have written a Spectator-like letter, drawing a parallel to Austen's style.
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- might have been written by a rather more ladylike and intelligent Lydia Bennet in the days of Lydia’s great-grandmother
- satirizesMrs. Musgrove
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- Jane Austen's work includes satire directed at Mrs. Musgrove's self-deceiving regrets.
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- her satire of Mrs. Musgrove’s self-deceiving regrets over her son
- shares trait withMr. Bennet
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- Jane Austen is described as sharing Mr. Bennet's 'epicurean delight in dissecting' fools and mean persons.
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- like her own Mr. Bennet, she took an epicurean delight in dissecting, in displaying, in setting at work her fools and her mean persons
- embodiedCynicism (literary concept)
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- In the redefined sense of 'cynicism' as perceiving mixed motives, Jane Austen is affirmed to be a cynic.
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- And in that sense Miss Austen certainly was one
- exemplifiesLiterary Realism
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- Jane Austen's realism is described as 'real to a degree' that surpasses the 'false realism' of her contemporaries.
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- As to art, if she has never tried idealism, her realism is real to a degree which makes the false realism of our own day look merely dead-alive
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