- The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen🔍
- How to Misread Jane Austen🔍
- Does it annoy you that people get Jane Austen wrong?🔍
- The Darker Side of Jane Austen🔍
- Jane Austen is Probably Mad at Us🔍
- Men Who Won't Read Jane Austen Are So Wrong🔍
- What Becoming Jane gets wrong about Jane Austen's love life.🔍
- On Reading and Teaching🔍
The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen
The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen
I think Jane wrote pretty much constantly. She was a perfectionist. She was secretive and would certainly have destroy any type of journal ...
How to Misread Jane Austen | The New Yorker
She is always ventriloquizing. Virginia Woolf compared her to Shakespeare: “She flatters and cajoles you with the promise of intimacy and then, ...
Does it annoy you that people get Jane Austen wrong? - Reddit
I love Jane Austen as a brutal humorist, satirist and remarkable portrayer of character. I lament the depiction of her as a fluffy and cuddly ...
The Darker Side of Jane Austen - CrimeReads
I started reading Pride & Prejudice around the same time-aged 14 or 15. Jane Austen was the first writer to describe how the English Law of ...
Jane Austen is Probably Mad at Us - McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Fair enough. You are allowed to dislike or be ignorant of Austen, and no one should judge you for that (though secretly they probably do).
Men Who Won't Read Jane Austen Are So Wrong - Warhorn Media
It is not that her people are all good—and, certainly, they are not all wise. The faults of some are the anvils on which the virtues of others ...
What Becoming Jane gets wrong about Jane Austen's love life.
Spence was up against a familiar problem: Literary biographers who set out to establish how Austen's novels arise from her personal experience ...
On Reading and Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen - The Atlantic
I used to adore the Pride and Prejudice author. But over the years I've grown more ambivalent toward her and the fervor for her work.
The pleasures of doing Jane Austen wrong - Flamingo Reads
And yet we keep reading. How is reading Jane Austen different from scrolling through your instagram feed and why do we do it? The answer is obscure because it ...
The title made you click on this post, didn't it? You're probably wondering how on earth could someone hate Jane Austen?
What was Jane Austen wrong about? - Quora
Her mockery of Mrs Musgrove lamenting the death of her son Richard in Persuasion is a bit jarring. The implication that because Mrs Musgrove is ...
Don't Dismiss Jane Austen as a Writer of "Silly Things" - Book Riot
Not only because it was a totally wrong judgement on Jane Austen, but because this was a judgement that I had myself when I was just a few years ...
Why the F*ck Do People Love Jane Austen So Much? A Primer
Romance, unrequited love, silliness, pride, stupid decision making, vanity, wit, independence, loyalty, and realization of our mistakes are all ...
I Read Everything Jane Austen Wrote, Several Times
It is also the least funny of Austen's books. The bad characters, whether snobbish, scheming, or hypochondriacal, are unwaveringly bad. ( ...
Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen - Literary Hub
After finding myself fatigued towards the end of the semester by all the British domestic drama of Austen's oeuvre, I zone out during a ...
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, a review, part two of three
And yet, she doesn't appear to comprehend that Austen's muse is a comic one. Consider the famous opening in Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth ...
Austen's alleged failings in style and grammar: we need examples
One of her [Austen's] grammatical errors was the inability to master the 'i before e' rule and her works were littered with distant 'veiws' and ...
I would hesitate to call Jane Austen a radical or a revolutionary—Helena Kelly sees the characterisation of some hypocritical clergymen in her ...
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly review
Helena Kelly thinks so. She sets out to show us how Austen's novels have been “so thoroughly, so almost universally, misunderstood”. They have ...
It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along - Big Issue
When it comes to Jane Austen there turn out to be a lot of unknown knowns. For decades, we've prioritised family stories and unevidenced claims ...