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Austen's Problem: the Thoughts of the Group on "the Ivory of Proportion

Huangmei

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"Austen Questions" takes Austen's six important works as the main line, and discusses Austen's social care and art world from multiple angles through a combination of ideological criticism and literary analysis. The author takes the rise of individualism and the relationship between self, others and groups as the core issues in the transition from traditional British society to the era of profit-seeking industry and commerce at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Through in-depth and detailed text analysis, he combines it with modern and contemporary Austen research and popular criticism in the West. In the dialogue, it is shown how Austen conveyed social phenomena and the spirit of the times in the lively secular life and art world he created, thought about the relationship between "morality" and happiness, and participated in the construction of new values ​​of "thinking of others" in his own way. The whole book presents the unique understanding and interpretation of the "Austen Question" by an experienced Chinese scholar with his long-term reading experience, confusion and thinking.