ThefemalevaluesinJanAusen’slieraryworks_开题报告

一、Literature Review

As one of the famous woman writers active in British literature circle of the eighteenth century, Jane Austen can be said to have an important position in the global fiction history. As for a wide of readers, the female characters described in her novels have important theoretical and practical values for letting our readers know more about the marriage and love viewpoints in the England transition period. Just in the Victoria Era when Jane Austen lived, gothic novels were prevalent in the genre and gradually formed a whole-new fiction-writing style. A plenty of classic and gruesome masterpieces can be seen in this era, such as the well-known “Dracula” or “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. Then, British society still placed in the male-dominant system, and combined with British cities often had foggy days, some misty tastes can be found in the above works. The rise of her novels seems a clear stream in this era which would be sure to constantly affect marriage and value viewpoints of the young people in the village aristocracy and landlord system, particularly the breakthroughs and alerts brought to then and even the existing female values still remain great effects to global readers.

     Her novels emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. Her works went off the beaten track and innovatively revealed the world the daily routines and idyllic surroundings of then British middle-class group which still had not been hit by the industrial revolution of capitalism. By abandoning the hot romanticism trend and adopting the realism writing way popular in the eighteenth century, she bravely expressed her own love and marriage viewpoints through a series of novels in hopes that the female group can get rid of traditional ideas to find and achieve themselves. All the she want to express is to embody female value viewpoints in then society. As a necessary component of the two-gender society, the roles of the female group have played are absolutely diversified in today's society. In the rapidly-developed society today, female figures can be seen in every walk of life. They play roles of mother, leadership, eldership, employee and even state leader. Correct value viewpoints are all fundamental for securing they can easily play their roles in the society. Although her novels wrote more than 200 years ago, they directly reflected the attitudes and changs to female value Viewpoints.As the finding form Women’s Studies Institute of Chinashowed.

There are thefollowingthree characteristics of Chinese women's values change. Firstly, value orientation is changed from monism to pluralism. Secondly, thinking mode is evolved from close to open. Thirdly, self-consciousnesses is developed from weak to highlight. The root cause lies in the constant change of social structure. In the other words, it lies in the background of the market-oriented economy and the coexistence of a variety of cultural forms. This paper was based on such change of female value viewpoints in the culture pattern. By looking back to English and American Literature, starting from the various long and short novels of Jane Austen-the typical writer saying for female concepts, ranging from “Pride and Prejudice” to “Emma” and even to “Sense and Sensibility”, a series of whole-new and multidimensional female value viewpoints have been penetrated in she novels. It can be said a open, inclusive and constant metabolic process. Viewed from literature influence, the female writers represented by Jane Austen not only affect then female group but also embody contemporary female group's pursuit to the future, namely self-esteem, self-reliance, self-confidence and self-stimulation.

二、Outline of thesis

••1.Introduction

1.1. Research Background 

1.2. Research Object

2. Literature Review

2.1. The formation of female values

2.2. The relationship between literature and women’s values

3 .About Jane Austen

3.1. Family values of Sense and Sensibility

3.2.The love and marriage view of  Pride and Prejudice

3.3.Jane Auste’s feminine values 

4. Conclusion

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