This novel is about the fate of two sisters, reasonable Elinor and passionate Marianne. Girls see the world in different ways : one listens to the voice of the heart, the other does as her mind tells her . Each of them is fighting for the opportunity to marry a loved one in spite of all the circumstances. After all, both desperately want the same love and happiness.

Austen is mirroring the basic tension of her times in this work. Reason, the eighteenth-century symbol of all that is good, and the accompanying moral order of the times, which is exemplified in the standards of the community at large, are being challenged by the nineteenth-century romantic strain, where morality is interpreted by the individual. What was to result is literary history.

The story focuses on two sisters and how their romantic interests and relationships characterize their different approaches to life. The older sister Elinor embodies sense, good judgment and discretion. Her sister Marianne is emotional and volatile, following her heart with a supreme disregard for what society might and does think.

The main theme in this novel is the danger of excessive sensibility. 
The cult of sensibility led to the sentimental novel, in which the hero is obsessed with his or her sufferings in love and other emotions. Such characters tended to weeping or fainting fits of extreme weakness as a response to emotionally moving experiences.

Austen is concerned with the prevalence of the "sensitive" attitude in the romantic novel which turned to emphasizing the emotional and sentimental nature of people rather than their rational endowments. The cult of sensibility was an eighteenth-century literary and intellectual movement which elevated sensibility above reason and other standards of right action. It argued that to have acute and heightened feelings was a sign of superior character.

Written by Mityagina Evgeniya, 17ИА-о-31/3

     Jane Austen’s influence on romanticism can also be seen in her novel named «Emma». As usually writers of the age of romanticism often used natural landscapes to create idealistic settings in their works. So, in the story by Jane Austen «Emma» the country where Emma was living with her father showed this romantic characteristic through the rural solitude of Higbury. The society of Higbury built such "metaphorical walls", which allow people to acknowledge and accept their own values while ignoring the values of other people. They also believe they separate themselves from the vice of the town which is also one of the main features of the Romantic period.

    In addition, Mr. Knightly- also the main character of this novel- explained to Emma how he was in love with her: “I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have bourne it. --Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them”. This gives more background of the relationship between the two and adds to the romantic idealism of the novel.

Another element is nature. The author describes the Swiss hills in true Romanticism form. The final comparison that she draws is between the winds of each place.

Jane Austen often used elements of nature in her work. We see that the view of the landscape in her novel is full and witty. Jane described the nature to better show the situation occurring. For example in novel 

writer has written "neat gravel walk, which led between espalier apple trees,… given her so 

much pleasure,..." here her refers to Harriet Smith one of the characters  writer wants to say 

that nature gives pleasure.

There is a part in the novel where Emma makes fun of Miss Bates because she was ashamed to walk in the garden. In this part, Jane wanted to show that nature is a wonderful place for peace and tranquility. The description of the weather added to the gloom and described the situation in more detail.
It was also written that the gloomy weather affected Mr. Woodhouse, this shows the effect of external weather on internal. Situations in the novel change depending on the weather.

One of the best known novels, Ivanhoe by, incorporates many of the themes embraced by the Romantics. A romance set in 12th century England, medievalism permeates the structure of Ivanhoe: portraying the Crusades, knights, jousting tournaments and the realm of chivalry and it’s resulting attitudes. 

Honor and valor are important attributes and are frequently invoked to right injustices. Nationalism and politics are also play large roles in the novel.