Absence And Remembrance: Cultural Interpretation Of Jane Austen' Novels

In the twentieth century, a powerful "Austen cultural craze" is sweeping the globe, lots of films and TV shows based on Jane Austen's novels have been broadcast. A lot of republications and biographies of Austen have been issued. Furthermore, the derivative works based on Austen's novels have appeared. In the Academic community, Austen has also become a new favorite. In different countries, mass articles and research groups study on Austen have appeared. Two hundred years after she dead, Austen gained the great reputation from scholars and readers in suddenly.This paper does an in depth analysis of the peculiar phenomenon on Austen's acceptance, and it is widely accepted that the reason for the acceptance is that Jane Austen created a soothing, elegant, and real village in her novels. This countryside is different from the world in modern life. So this difference is a compensation for the emotion flaw of modernist in the twentieth century, so the countryside has become the psycho-home of modernist's retrospection. This thesis is divided into several parts:the limited space and relieve time, the graceful and complete daily life, the Sincere and cordial emotion and the natural harmony rural civilization.This paper intends to describe the rural village and rural daily life in England of Austen's novels, and compare it with the life of modernists. This paper looks for the reason that Austen was accepted in the twentieth century.