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and i'm going to go with the expert.
(btw. he also said that she was a biting satirist and proto-feminist, so he's no conservative academic dustball)
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"history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. ... I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome."
(Catherine Morland)
It made me think how little we women are considered in "History"
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I find it strange how some actors (and people i general) have period-appropriate faces. And how it pains me when I see a contemporary face in a period movie.
/I hope that's a valid comment, and that it won't ged dissemvoweled/
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As a lit major, I say free Austen from her American jail, and let her be a real English author with flaws and strange alleyways of her own instead of the center for all kinds of crazy perverse projections we seem to pile upon her.
Austen is not even my favorite 19th c female author- that honor goes to the Bronte sisters- but i think for Austen it's the heady combination of being the flagstaff for deferring-yet-intelligent authors who don't break the status quo (and in fact continue to define it centuries after its death) and her use of old plots to new, perhaps subtler ends that really lends her well to commerce.
What I do want to see is the meme for which sad and lonely Wharton character one represents. All the James women are the same, so that quiz might be harder to figure out.
Also, one final note-- why is it that people are so obsessed and yet can never spell her name right?
10/29/08
In times of crisis, I like to rant about how much I hate it when people refer to Jane Austen as "Jane" like they went to middle school together and are BFFs 4-evah.
Jane Austen was ruined for me in high school by a group of girls and one teacher who insisted on doing this, and on treating Jane Austen novels like they were a secret message written in invisible ink that appeared only to those with a smugness level of 90% or higher.
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