Sense and sensibility

College Name: Maharanishree nandkuvarbaa arts& commerce college 

Name: Rathod pritika Pratap Singh 

Teacher Name: Shivani mam

Sem:5 B.A

Subject: the study of novel

        Home Assignment 

                 Sense and sensibility.

• The novel is probably set between 1792 and 1797[2] and follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and move to a modest cottage on the property of distant relative in Devon. 

• There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both.

• On his deathbed, Henry Dashwood makes his son, John, promise to provide for his stepmother and half-sisters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, from his inheritance. 

• John's wife Fanny instead persuades him not to support them financially, leaving them a greatly reduced income.

• Fanny's brother Edward Ferrars arrives for a visit.

• When he and Elinor seem to be growing close, Fanny warns Mrs Dashwood that their mother has higher goals for Edward.

• Affronted, Mrs Dashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in Devonshire, which her second cousin, Sir John Middleton, offered for a low rent. 

• Later, while dining with the Middletons at Barton Park, family friend Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne. 

• However, he is aged thirty-five, which seems too old to sixteen-year-old Marianne's romantic sensibilities.

• Mrs. Jennings takes the Dashwood sisters to visit her second daughter as they journey back to Devonshire. 

• Marianne goes walking in the rain and contracts putrid fever. 

•When Marianne's condition worsens, Elinor writes home. 

• Colonel Brandon, who lives nearby, volunteers to bring Marianne's mother. 

• That night, Willoughby arrives. 

• He tells Elinor that he genuinely loved Marianne. 

• However, the callous way he talks about Eliza and his wife lessens Elinor's pity for him.

• 19th century responses.

• Early reviews of Sense and Sensibility focused on the novel as providing lessons in conduct (which would be debated by later critics), as well as reviewing the characters.

• The Norton Critical Edition of Sense and Sensibility contains a number of such responses in its supplementary materia l.

• publication history

• The three volumes of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility, 1811

•In 1811, Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London accepted the manuscript for publication in three volumes. 

•Austen paid to have the book published and paid the publisher a commission on sales.

• The cost of publication was more than a third of Austen's annual household income of £460 (about £15,000 in 2008 currency).

• [24] She made a profit of £140 (almost £5,000 in 2008 currency)[24] on the first edition, which sold all 750 printed copies by July 1813. 

• A second edition was advertised in October 1813.

    Class assignment 

Pride and Prejudice 

• Pride and Prejudice is the second published novel (but third to be written) by English author Jane Austen, written when she was age 20–21, and later published in 1813.

• The novel of manners is a work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with detailed observation the complex of customs, values, and mores of a stratified society

• Manners and Gothic fiction

• As the creator of Gothic fiction and as the author of The Castle of Otranto (1764), Horace Walpole noted the importance of manners for social advancement. 

• Walpole's knowledge of the Earl of Chesterfield's emphasis upon manners in society influenced his fiction and that of other authors of Gothic novels.

       Background

• To realise upward social mobility in their societies, men and women learned etiquette in order to know how to get along with the people from whom they sought favour; an example of such instructions is the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

• Others works in the genre, including the novels of Jane Austen, offer critical social commentary through the use of satire.

               Refference 

• Andrzej Diniejko (2004). Introduction to the Study of Literature. Kielce: Wydawnictwo Akademii Swietokrzyskiej.

• Novel Beginnings: Experiments in 18th century English Fiction

• Patricia Meyer Spacks Yale Guides to English Literature U.S. 2006

• Lord Chesterfield's Letters

• Lord Chesterfield, Introduction and Notes by David Roberts Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 1992

• The Castle of Otranto

• Horace Walpole Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 1996

• Zofloya

• Charlotte Dacre Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 1997

• Evelina

• Frances Burney Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxfords. 

              Essay...

• The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

• About Ernest Hemingway:

• Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ/ HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an

• American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated

• style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous

• lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story

• collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he

• was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Born : July 21, 1899

• Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.

• Died : July 2, 1961 (aged 61)

• Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.

• Notable awards : Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)

• Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)

• Spouses :Hadley Richardson

• Pauline Pfeiffer

• Martha Gellhorn

• Mary Welsh

• Children. :JackPatrickGloria

• Characters:

• Santiago

• The old man of the novella’s title, Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who has had an extended

• run of bad luck. Despite his expertise, he has been unable to catch a fish for eighty-four

• days. He is humble, yet exhibits a justified pride in his abilities. His knowledge of the sea and

• its creatures, and of his craft, is unparalleled and helps him preserve a sense of hope

• regardless of circumstance. Throughout his life, Santiago has been presented with contests

• to test his strength and endurance. The marlin with which he struggles for three days

• represents his greatest challenge. Paradoxically, although Santiago ultimately loses the fish,

• the marlin is also his greatest victory.

• The Marlin

• Santiago hooks the marlin, which we learn at the end of the novella measures eighteen feet,

• on the first afternoon of his fishing expedition. Because of the marlin’s great size, Santiago is

• unable to pull the fish in, and the two become engaged in a kind of tug-of-war that often

• Seems more like an alliance than a struggle. The fishing line serves as a symbol of the

• fraternal connection Santiago feels with the fish. When the captured marlin is later destroyed