JANE AUSTEN’S ROMANTIC WORLD AS REFLECTED IN HER NOVELS
JANE AUSTEN’S ROMANTIC WORLD AS REFLECTED IN HER NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Jane Austen lived between 1775 and 1817, at a time when the political and the economic importance of the country gentry made itself felt throughout society. Hence, she focused on the life, manners, and values of this social segment. The landed country gentry provided her with various social types and a social context with middle class manners and mores. However, the social life in Jane Austen's England was not uniform and peaceful. Our paper explores some of the social limitations and restrictions faced by the heroines of Jane Austen’s world, as well as the conflicts that her female heroines have with the established norms of their society and, therefore, and their search for freedom as well as their submission.

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