Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zulfiya Tchaikovsky leads The Academic Editors, where she offers client-centered services that help ensure consistently high levels of writing and research. An avid reader, Zulfiya Tchaikovsky particularly enjoys the works of Jane Austen, which, 202 years after the author’s death at age 41, transcend their era and relate vividly to the contemporary experience.
One reason for the lasting impact of Austen’s work is that she maintained a sense of objective realism about the characters and situations she portrayed throughout her six humor- and irony-laden novels. A master technician, she made plot developments jump out from the page through the frequent use of dialogue that allowed her characters to express their thoughts directly.
In addition to stylistic brilliance, Austen placed situations having to do with love, marriage, and family dysfunction front and center. These situations are still relatable today, even if technology, fashion, and social mores have changed extensively over the centuries. Unlike contemporary works that place a veil of romanticism on the world of lords, ladies, horses, and carriages, Austen cut through that veil in seeking an essence that went beyond outward trappings.
One reason for the lasting impact of Austen’s work is that she maintained a sense of objective realism about the characters and situations she portrayed throughout her six humor- and irony-laden novels. A master technician, she made plot developments jump out from the page through the frequent use of dialogue that allowed her characters to express their thoughts directly.
In addition to stylistic brilliance, Austen placed situations having to do with love, marriage, and family dysfunction front and center. These situations are still relatable today, even if technology, fashion, and social mores have changed extensively over the centuries. Unlike contemporary works that place a veil of romanticism on the world of lords, ladies, horses, and carriages, Austen cut through that veil in seeking an essence that went beyond outward trappings.
