In The Field Of Vision Of The Educational Novel, Jane Austen,

It is possible to name the works of Jane Austen Bildungsroman, because the Austen's heroines have the same experience that they get mature after correcting their errors. For paying more attention to the characters and thoughts of the figures, Austen's works represent the characteristic of English modernistic novels, in other words, she opened the door to the beginning of the English modernistic novels and affected the subsequent authors greatly. This attention to the inward of the figures got into a tradition and is throughout the English novels history. So Jane Austen is a milestone person in the history of the English novels.This article is divided five parts. The first one introduces the study of Jane Austen within the country and abroad. The second discusses the origin of Bildungsroman, at the same time, the conception used in this article is confined. In the third part, Jane Austen's six works are analyzed in detail. And then in the forth part, six works of Jane Austen are compared with feminine literature and French novels appearing at that time in order to show the special of Jane Austen's. In the last part, the conclusion is drawn.