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Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C and D. At the time Jane Austin’s novels were published
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C and D. At the time Jane Austin’s novels were published
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问题
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from A, B, C and D.
At the time Jane Austin’s novels were published — between 1811 and 1818 — English literature was not part of any academic curriculum. In addition, fiction was under strenuous attack. Certain religious and political groups felt novels had the power to make so-called immoral characters so interesting that young readers would identify with them; these groups also considered novels to be of little practical use. Even Coleridge, certainly no literary reactionary, spoke for many when he asserted that "novel-reading occasions the destruction of the mind’s powers."
These attitudes toward novels help explain why Austin received little attention from early nineteenth-century literary critics.(In any case, a novelist published anonymously, as Austin was, would not be likely to receive much critical attention.)The literary response that was accorded her, however, was often as incisive as twentieth-century criticism. In his attack in 1816 on novelistic portrayals "outside of ordinary experience", for example, Scott made an insightful remark about the merits of Austin’s fiction. "Her novels", wrote Scott, "present to the reader an accurate and exact picture of ordinary everyday people and places, reminiscent of seventeenth-century Flemish Painting." Scott did not use the word "realism", but he undoubtedly used a standard of realistic probability in judging novels, the critic Whately didn’t use the word realism either, but he expressed agreement with Scott’s evaluation, and went on to suggest the possibilities for moral instruction in what we have called Austin’s realistic method. "Her characters", wrote Whately, "are persuasive agents for moral truth since they are ordinary persons so clearly evoked that we feel an interest in their fate as if it were our own." "Moral instruction", explained Whately, "is more likely to be effective when conveyed through recognizably human and interesting characters than when imparted by a sermonizing narrator". Whitely especially praised Austin’s ability to create characters who "mingle goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, as in life they are always mingled." Whitely concluded his remarks by comparing Austin’s art of characterization to Dickens’, stating his preference to Austin’s.
Yet the response of nineteenth-century literary critics to Austin was not always so laudatory, and often anticipated the reservations of twentieth century critics. An example of such a response was Lewes’ complaint in 1859 that Austin’s range of subjects and characters was too narrow. Praising her verisimilitude, Lewes added that nonetheless her focus was too often upon only the unlofty and the commonplace.(Twentieth-century, Marxists, on the other hand, were to complain about what they saw as her exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class.)In any case, having been rescued by some literary critics from neglect and indeed gradually lionized by them, Austin steadily reached, by the mid-nineteenth century, the enviable pinnacle of being considered controversial.
The passage suggests that twentieth-century Marxists would have admired Jane Austin’s novels more if the novels, as the Marxists understood them, had______.
选项
A、described the values of upper-middle class society
B、portrayed characters from more than one class of society
C、avoided moral instruction and sermonizing
D、anticipated some of the controversial social problems of the twentieth century
答案
B
解析
本题是推理题。根据文章第3段第3句:“(Twentieth-century,Marxists,on the other hand,were to complain about what they saw as her exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middleclass.)”(20世纪的马克思主义者认为Jane Austin的小说题材太狭窄,过于强调上层中产阶级。)由此可推知,如果Jane Austin所刻画的人物来自不同的阶层,马克思主义者会更喜欢她的小说。故B是正确答案。
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