Riassunto esame Letteratura inglese, Prof. Perletti Greta, libro consigliato Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

23.09.2022

historical background

• Augustan Age - 18th century reference for Jane Austen
  • Queen Anne, King George I and II (political stability)
  • Reference Roman history: Augusto and the acts
    • Also Golden Age from perspective of artists and writers because prosperous and easy to find patrons who could pay
  • The Enlightenment in whole Europe (Age of Reason)
    • Jane Austen respects traditions and values (order, harmony, balance, Aestheticism)
  • Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson
    • Poetry
    • Novelists - important for women writers
• Romantic Age: 1785 - 1832 literary movement rather than historical
  • In Europe not only England (2 generations of poets)
  • 1832 Reform Act to extend right to vote (also middle class)
  • Poetry not prose
• Regency: 1811 - 1820 King George III mad - Prince Regent
  • Jane Austen started writing in Romantic Age but published during Regency (all 6 novels)
  • Elegance and prosperity (not really because Prince not skilled to rule and because Napoleonic Wars but remembered like stable)
• Victorian Age: 1837 - 1901 Queen Victoria
  • England changed during reign and also English novels
  • Jane Austen's reputation grows even if died 1817
  • "the long 19th century" used for common features
  • Contains Augustan Age, Romantic Age, Regency, Victorian Age

Why do we read stories

• Cognitive Literary Theory (emphasis on brain + interest in literature)
  • Jonathan Gottschall, "The Storytelling Animal" (academic book)
    • How mental processes evolved during time
    • Literature = group of stories; human is addicted to stories and is advantage from evolutive perspective

23.09.2022

Historical Background

• Augustan Age - 18th century reference for Jane Austen
  • Queen Anne, King George I and II (political stability)
  • Reference Roman history: Augusto and the acts
    • Also Golden Age from perspective of artists and writers because prosperous and easy to find patrons who could pay
  • The Enlightenment in whole Europe (Age of Reason)
    • Jane Austen respects traditions and values (order, harmony, balance, aestheticism)
  • Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson
    • Poetry
    • Novelists
  • Important for women writers
• Romantic Age - 1785 - 1832 literary movement rather than historical
  • In Europe not only England (2 generations of poets)
  • 1832 Reform Act to extend right to vote (also middle class)
  • Poetry not prose
• Regency - 1811 - 1820 King George III mad - Prince Regent
  • Jane Austen started writing in Romantic Age but published during Regency (all 6 novels)
  • Elegance and prosperity (not really because Prince not skilled to rule and because Napoleonic Wars but remembered like stable)
• Victorian Age - 1837 - 1901 Queen Victoria
  • England changed during reign and also English novels
  • Jane Austen's reputation grows even if died 1817
  • "The long 19th century" used for common features
  • Contains Augustan Age, Romantic Age, Regency, Victorian Age

Why do we read stories

• Cognitive literary theory (emphasis on brain + interest in literature)
• Jonathan Gottschall “The storytelling animal” (academic book)
  • How mental processes evolved during time
  • Literature = group of stories; human is addicted to stories and is advantage from evolutive perspective

• storytelling is instinct and fundamental/useful so is an advantage because it activates in brain neural processes/responses which is useful for real life situations (react faster and more successful way)
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