Английский язык. Часть II. Коныгина Г.И - 18 стр.

6. was contributed by Sir Walter Scott. He hailed this “nameless author” as a
7. masterful exponent of “the modern novel in the new realist tradition.” After
8. Austen’s death, in the 1820s, one of the reviewers drew favourable
9. comparisons between Austen and such acknowledged greats as Homer and
10. have Shakespeare, praising the dramatic qualities of her narrative. Though
11. Austen's novels and were republished in Britain beginning in the 1830s and
12. remained steady sellers, they were not bestsellers. Austen did have many
13. admiring readers who considered themselves part of the literary elite. They
14. viewed their such appreciation of Austen's works as a mark of their cultural
15. taste. With the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870,
16. the novelist was introduced to a wider public, her books were reissued,
17. readers when started to feel a personal identification with Jane Austen,
18. criticism on the author increased in amount. However, critics some continued
19. to assert that Austen's works were sophisticated and only appropriate for
20. those who could truly plumb their depths. As a result, there appeared
21. considerable disconnection between with the popular appreciation of Austen
22. and the academic appreciation. During the 20th century, Austen's reputation
23. her significantly increased. By the 1940s, Austen was firmly ensconced in
24. academia as a "great English writer", and the second half of the twentieth
25. century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship once that explored many
26. aspects of her novels: artistic, ideological, and historical. In popular why
27. culture, a Jane Austen cult began to develop. Her admirers have elevated
28. Jane Austen to the unprecedented less status. They worship everything
29. connected with Austen's life, works and memorabilia. There are dozens of
30. amateur reading clubs whose “performances” include teas, costume balls,
31. games, weekend study trips, readings, and dramatic representations. Jane
32. Austen’s reputation is steadily was on the increase. Her books attract wide
33. readership all over the world. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth
34. century, Austen family members published conclusions to her incomplete
35. novels. Nowadays hundreds of sequels and prequels of almost every sort
36. appear regularly. Her novels have recently undergone an his enthusiastic
37. revival and have become particularly successful with the public, in part
38. because of successful motion-picture and television thus adaptations of her
39. novels. It is evident that the books the novelist created two centuries ago
40. retain their irresistible appeal for readers.

Work with a partner. Read the following statements and decide whether
they are true or false according to the text. Correct the false ones.

1. Dozens of authoritative periodicals issued reviews of Austen’s literary works
   immediately after their publication.
2. Numerous critics had no settled opinions of the novels published by Jane
   Austen during her lifetime.
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