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Pride and Prejudice was written in the Romantic era. It is hard to put a definition on this time period but some characteristics of what writings of the period generally had are: sensibility; primitivism; love of nature; sympathetic interest in the past, especially the medieval; mysticism; individualism; romanticism criticism; and a reaction against whatever characterized neoclassicism. Some typical attitudes of people at the time were: enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature and art; unrestrained imagination; enthusiasm for the uncivilized or "natural"; interest in human rights. We see a lot of these coming through in Pride and Prejudice, though Austen focuses more on the society rather than the history of the time.