scholarly journals Gendered Cinematic Landscapes and Production History of Andrew Davies’s Jane Austen From Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheri Chinen Biesen
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sense And Sensibility

Jane Austen and the World of the Community

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ehrenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Good Life ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense And Sensibility ◽  
The One ◽  
Falling In Love

For two weeks now, I have wallowed in sinful luxury, rereading the six completed Jane Austen novels (especially my favorite parts), basking in the warmth and wit of her collected letters, eagerly absorbing the details of her life from her best biographies, and attentively following the arguments of her leading literary critics. I also saw the recent movie versions of Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, falling in love with Emma Thompson and Amanda Root in quick succession, and finished off my orgy with viewings of the BBC videos of Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Pride and Prejudice. Throughout—at least when I could remember to pay attention—I had two questions in mind. What does Jane Austen have to say about people, communities, and nature? And what is the cause of her resurgent popularity? Perhaps, I allowed myself to think, the questions are related. Answering the questions proved not so simple, but I did have fun trying. Sam and I read Aunt Jane’s letter, dated 8 Jan. 1817, to her nine-year-old niece Cassy, beginning: . . . Ym raed Yssac I hsiw uoy a yppah wen raey. Ruoy xis snisuoc emac ereh yadretsey, dna dah hcae a eceip fo ekac . . . . . . I read the amusingly mordant comments she could write about her neighbors, such as the one in her letter of 3July 1813 to her brother Francis, mentioning the “respectable, worthy, clever, agreable Mr Tho. Leigh, who has just closed a good life at the age of 79, & must have died the possesser of one of the finest Estates in England & of more worthless Nephews and Neices [sic] than any other private Man in the United Kingdoms.” I read the last chapters of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion each three times. I read once again about Catherine Morland’s cruel expulsion from Northanger Abbey, and about the ill-omened trip of Fanny Price, the Bertram sisters, and the Crawfords to the Rushworth estate, Sotherton, with its seductive, if too regularly planted, wilderness. And again I was privileged to accompany Emma Woodhouse, Miss Bates, Frank Churchill, and Mr. Knightly on the tension-charged picnic to Box Hill, surely one of the highest peaks in English literature.

Feminism in the Novels of Jane Austen

2019 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Priydarshi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Northanger Abbey ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Sense And Sensibility ◽  
Own Name

Jane Austen’s genius was not recognized either by her contemperaries or even by her successors. But about 1890 the tide of appreciation and popularity markedly turned in favour and correspondingly, against her contemporary, Sir Walter Scott. She always strives in her art to remain full conscious of her responsibility to life as an artist. She is known as the last blossom of the 18th century. She has six novels to her credit-‘Sense and Sensibility’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Mansfield Park, ‘Emma’, ‘Northanger Abbey’ and ‘Persuasion’. Though she created her stories in her above-mentioned novels more than 200 years ago, her novels were forerunners of feminism. According to a critic, “Jane Austen was a published female novelist, who wrote under her own name, which can be seen as an important feminist quality”.

scholarly journals Jane Austen and the Council of the Federation

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Jean Leclair
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Sense And Sensibility

As I was preparing this article1 about the Council of the Federation, about the manner in which it differed from its predecessor, the Annual Premiers’ Conference, my thoughts were constantly harking back to my favorite English author, Jane Austen. Although the titles of her novels are different, and despite the fact that Elizabeth Bennet is not an exact replica of Elinor Dashwood,2 Jane Austen always writes the same story: the battle between reason and emotion, between sense and sensibility. Now, quite frankly, as do Alain Noël and others before me, I believe that the Council of the Federation is not more than a light institutionalization of the Annual Premiers’ Conference.3 It is the same story again. And one that also has to do with the tension between sense and sensibility. During my preparation, I also recalled the very first sentence of Jane Austen’s masterpiece Pride and Prejudice which runs as follows: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Amusingly, the Council of the Federation’s philosophy could be articulated in a similar fashion: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a federal government in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of provinces.”

scholarly journals Jane Austen’s View of Love In Her Works ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’ through the Main Characters: Conflict Resolution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fathu Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Material Gain ◽  
Sense And Sensibility

Austen promotes a certain kind of romantic relationship through the use of archetypes in her stories, Austen shows her preference for a certain type of romantic relationship, Hazel Jones (2009) describes as “the very best kind of union, based on compatibility, affection and respect, one certainty described: that marriages based on love and esteem were more likely to endure the test of time than those contracted for material gain”. There are paralel-characters mirroring each other in Jane Austen’s two novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and that these parallels present certain archetypical personality traits, that determine their characters’ ending. In this novel, the author Jane Austen show us the use of a certain types of personality character traits that can be found in two novels parallel charactersin order to promote her vision of a happy long-lasting romantic relationship.

Jak znaleźć męża między żywymi trupami a krwiożerczymi ośmiornicami? Mash-up, czyli „klasyczne romanse z okresu regencji” z domieszką elementów nadnaturalnych (na przykładzie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies oraz Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters)

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2 (465)) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Iwona Przybysz
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Original Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense And Sensibility

In this article, the author confronts two mash-up novels (novels, in which new motives and elements are added to the masterpieces of world’s literature) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. The author shows how the new elements (zombies and sea monsters) are added to Jane Austen’s novels and underlines which elements have to be left in their original form, and which can be changed. The author also describes how the development of the new motives affects the ways of describing the world of the novel and its characters.

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