I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.
In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.
How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?
This is interesting! I take it as more reflective of Brontë – her artistic/aethetic concerns – and the rising tide of romanticism in literature. Put another way: Even if Jane Austen wanted to write a la Brontë, it would not be possible when she was writing P&P at the end of the 18th century (of course it was revised extensively c 1810-11).
Plus, Brontë is assuming things about Austen (that the was “a very incomplete and rather insensible…woman”) based on what? Only the reading of the novels.