Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen - (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
Romantic fiction
Landed gentry
Realism – biting irony & social commentary
Constant support from family
Epistolary novel
18th century ~ 19th century
Dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing & economic security
Austen’s works - Sense and Sensibility
1. Sense and Sensib
영국 역사의 시작
영국 역사의 시작은 5세기경 German 족의 침략(Anglo-Saxon Conquest)으로부터 시작된다. 물론 그 이전 Roman Empire의 지배를 받던, Celt족의 Britania(또는 Briton)가 있었으나, 아직 국가로서의 조직이나 체계를 갖추지 못한 상태였다. Caesar가 로마 경영을 위해 Briton을 떠나자, German 족들(Angles, Saxons,
He was an Irishman, born probably on November 10, 1728, at Pallas, in the County of Longford,
the son of a clergyman in the Church of England. Goldsmith grew up in genteel poverty in rural isolation
in a society in which the barriers of class were as firm as the Great Wall of China; in which riches and poverty,
benevolence or tyranny, seemed as wayward as the winds of heaven.
Discovered" by the poet Henry Vaughan (Olor Iscanus)
Used "Orinda" as a pen-name
Wrote poetry principally to Mary Aubrey, her "Rosania“
After Mary's marriage Katharine's chief poetic "correspondent" became Anne Owen, or "Lucasia"
Poems by the Incomparable Mrs. K.P. (1664), which was withdrawn a few days after publication
Cotterell's "authorized" edition of the Poems appeared in
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century was Britain’s the time of conversion and rapid growth. After 1707, Britain was called Great Britain. Britain became the World Power and be on which the sun never sets. There was a great change internally. Traditionally, Britain was an agricultural country. But, as the population increases, the power was moved to a city and trade was prosperous. Moreove