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Coping with context

One of the most demanding Assessment Objectives requires you to ‘demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received’. Here, Cicely Palser Havely offers some hints and applies them to the novels of Jane Austen

Keira Knightley as Lizzy Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (2005)

When dealing with context in your responses to literary texts, you are being asked to address two major issues:

■ the context in which the author writes and in which their writing is read or ‘received’ — in general, the writing and first reading take place close in time

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