Jane Austen'da Feminizm ve Toplumsal Sahne

FEMINISM AND SOCIAL SCENE IN JANE AUSTENAmina YARARABSTRACTJane Austen started to write at a time when the Romantic Movement was expressing itspassionate involvement with the landscape, in particular, the melancholic aspects ofgothic ruins, and the natural world in general. She was one of the few writers to adoptan irreverent attitude to this obsessionLike many middle-class women, Jane Austen choose to balance her love of writing and theneed to stick to moral codes by remaining anonymous throughout her career as an author-ity was only just after she died that her name was made public. She also stayed in linewith convention by writing about `safe? subjects. Her stories focused on domestic andemotional matters: family, love and marriage, and her plots generally centred on youngfemale characters learning (eventually) how to be better person. But although Jane Austenused her talent in an extremely modest manner by modern standarts, the point is that sheignored the prejudice against female authors and started to write.In many ways, Jane Austen?s detached, ironic style was an antithesis of the Romantic ideal.Many people have commented on the modernity of her novels. Elizabeth Bowen in `EnglishNovelists? suggests this comment is ?an agreeable way? of saying that ?she is still somedistance ahead of us.?At the same time, as Duckworth goes on to illustrate, Austen?s work has been profitablyexplored in light of recent critical and literary theory, and determined exploration of Austen?srelation to her contemporary novelists and contemporary issues is making possible newunderstanding of her and her work in her time, thus providing new ways of understanding herimportance in the present.Based on this, I?ve analized Austen?s great novels and reflection of the feminism and socialscene in them. I?ve analized how perfectly she desribes England of the time, the socialclasses, the position of the women and the power of the men, which are not so far away fromtoday?s subjects. The aim of the thesis is to clarfy why Austen?s novels which were writtennearly 200 years ago are still very popular.