JANE AUSTEN [Maimoona Ijaz] As a woman of exquisite style and cultivated manners, Jane Austen was the zeitgeist of the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century.Her literary panorama includes novels like 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', 'Emma', 'Persuasion','Mansfield Park' together with 'Northanger Abbey'. Her novels are called 'tea-table romances' owing to the ordinary commonplace events in them. Her picture of life is a delicate watercolor to put beside the more vigorous oil painting of Fielding.The novel which in the hands of Richardson and Fielding had been a faithful record of real life and of the working of...
accusations.Jane Austen's settings are drawing rooms,ball rooms, parks and gardens of a civilized leisured class. She is unable to introduce lunatics, villains and ghostly figures in her characters. These materials are apparently trivial but the ultimate impression that she creates through them is simplex minditiis. She did not concern herself with social problems. Her novels are pure entertainment. No matter if you are tired and dispirited, Jane Austen enchants. Infact, what she does she does well, perhaps better than anyone though of course we all know that there is so much more to life and to literature than this.