Passage 73 Jane Austen

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Jane Austen' s relationship to Romanticism has long been a vexed one. Although her dates (1775-1817) place her squarely within the period, she traditionally has been studied apart from the male poets whose work defined British Romanticism for most of the twentieth century. In the past her novels were thought to follow an Augustan mode at odds with the Romantic ethos. Even with the advent of historicist and feminist criticism, which challenged many previous characterizations of Austen as detached from the major social, political and aesthetic currents of her time, she continued to be distinguished from her male contemporaries. Jerome McCann, for example, insists that Austen does not espouse the Romantic ideology. Anne Mellor declares that Austen, along with other "leading women intellectual and writers of the day” "did not”, participate in the Romantic "spirit of the age” but instead embraced an alternative ideology that Mellor labels "feminine Romanticism”.

Q1. According to to the passage, compared to critics trained in "historicist and feminist criticism” （首段第4行）earlier critics of Austen were
A more likely to represent her as isolated from the major intellectual currents of her period
B more likely to represent her as departing from Augustan modes of thought
C more likely to find connections between her novels and Romantic poetry
D less likely to neglect the influence of Romantic ideology on her work
E less likely to notice affinities between Austen and her female counterparts
答案：A
文章里面用的是social,political and aesthetic,不等于intellectual啊，为什么可以把这两个画等号？
后文又写 along with other leading women writers of the day，难道不应该选E么？

Q2.The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about the concept of "feminine Romanticism”（首段末句）?
A It bought about Austen’ s vexed relationship to Romanticism by implying that Austen embraced relatively few elements of the Romantic ideology.
B It contributes to Austen’ s vexed relationship to Romanticism by keeping her separate from the male writers whose poetry is central to the period.
C It ameliorates Austen’ s vexed relationship to Romanticism by emphasizing affinities between she and other leading women intellectuals of the day.
D It ameliorates Austen’ s vexed relationship to Romanticism by capturing the notion of an alternative Romantic ideology that she espoused.
E It resolves Austen’ s vexed relationship to Romanticism by demonstrating her affinity with Romantic ideology.
答案：B
B的答案出处是she continued to be distinguished from her male contemporaries。
但C在文章也有对应啊，而且离"feminine Romanticism”更近，along with other "leading women intellectual and writers of the day”。
我不懂为什么这两个答案都选择性忽视along with other "leading women intellectual and writers of the day”这句话。
求大神解答！多谢！

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1. 文学作家都是intellectuals。 问题是：和后期的评论家相比，以前的评论家都？更可能把她理解成远离主流知识分子的人。E没有根据啊。因为以前没有女性主义和历史主义学家，不会有人提及她和其他女作家的关系，所以比较不可能提及是不对的。
2. 我也选错。可是我没回去看主干，我的错。
最后一句话事实上是证明中间的一个观点“即使有历史主义和女性主义，blahblah,奥斯汀也继续被排除在她当时的男性作家之外。
答案B. 这句话证实了奥斯丁与浪漫主义的复杂关系通过把她与主流男性作家（他们的诗很主流）区别开来。