ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Chronologically, Jane Austen belongs in a category with the literary Romantics. She wrote in a period described as experiencing the ‘rise of print culture’ and the ‘rise of the novel’. Yet, for many years, she was seen as out of place in English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

Detailed explanation-3: -Combining realism, romance and comedy To say that Austen is a realist as a writer is not quite the same as saying she describes society as it really is. Her novels are also romantic comedies.