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Jane Austen's England
Literature简·奥斯汀的英格兰
(uk) Roy Adkins Leslie Adkins
"Jane Austen's England" shows the true British social scene in Jane Austen's era. It was a turbulent era, with unsettling rapid changes in agriculture and industry, and people constantly suffering from the fear of revolution and invasion: very different from the quiet and comfortable fictional world created by Jane Austen. From arranged marriages and wife selling to the abuse of child labor in mines and chimneys, this fascinating social history reveals how people in Britain worked, played and struggled for survival two centuries ago. This is a must-read for any reader who wants to explore the genius of Jane Austen and the background knowledge of her novels. If you mention a very long time in history, such as Rome or the Middle Ages, people may think that it is a completely unfamiliar world, but the Georgian era in which Jane Austen lived is also very different from the England of the 21st century. The lifestyle we take for granted today might have seemed like a dream to our ancestors two hundred years ago. The authors of this book are well-known British historians and archaeologists. They used Jane Austen's creation as a time coordinate, collected letters, diaries, travel logs from different groups of people, including priests, governesses, foreign visitors, businessmen, etc., And consulted a large number of criminal records, newspapers, and documentary materials. Using life development as the order of writing, the book restores the real situation of English people in weddings, childbirth, growth, going out, entertainment, medical treatment, and death in the 18th and 19th centuries, allowing readers to experience the specific life that an ordinary English person might have encountered two hundred years ago. Everyone plays their own role in shaping and changing history. History is constructed from individual lives. Without the details of life, there would be no history. If you want to truly understand the works of famous writers such as Jane Austen, Scott, George Eliot, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Hardy, etc., This is a must-have life background reference book.
"Jane Austen's England" shows the true British social scene in Jane Austen's era. It was a turbulent era, with unsettling rapid changes in agriculture and industry, and people constantly suffering from the fear of revolution and invasion: very different from the quiet and comfortable fictional world created by Jane Austen. From arranged marriages and wife selling to the abuse of child labor in mines and chimneys, this fascinating social history reveals how people in Britain worked, played and struggled for survival two centuries ago. This is a must-read for any reader who wants to explore the genius of Jane Austen and the background knowledge of her novels. If you mention a very long time in history, such as Rome or the Middle Ages, people may think that it is a completely unfamiliar world, but the Georgian era in which Jane Austen lived is also very different from the England of the 21st century. The lifestyle we take for granted today might have seemed like a dream to our ancestors two hundred years ago. The authors of this book are well-known British historians and archaeologists. They used Jane Austen's creation as a time coordinate, collected letters, diaries, travel logs from different groups of people, including priests, governesses, foreign visitors, businessmen, etc., And consulted a large number of criminal records, newspapers, and documentary materials. Using life development as the order of writing, the book restores the real situation of English people in weddings, childbirth, growth, going out, entertainment, medical treatment, and death in the 18th and 19th centuries, allowing readers to experience the specific life that an ordinary English person might have encountered two hundred years ago. Everyone plays their own role in shaping and changing history. History is constructed from individual lives. Without the details of life, there would be no history. If you want to truly understand the works of famous writers such as Jane Austen, Scott, George Eliot, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Hardy, etc., This is a must-have life background reference book.