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JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS
The desires of Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair M. Duckworth, Anne Hathaway, Billie Piper, Claudia Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, D.W. Hardy, D.W. Winnicott, David Lodge, Deborah Moggach, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, Fay Weldon, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Jessica Benjamin, John Wiltshire, Jon Spence, Kate Gordon, Keith Oatley, Leo Tolstoy, Lionel Trilling, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Marivaux, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Pamela Mooman, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Robert William Buss, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Susannah Carson, Trilling, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, William James Dawson
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JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART
…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Billie Piper, Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Johnson, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, Edouard Manet, Elizabeth Jenkins, F.R. Leavis, George Lewes, Horace Walpole, Howard Jacobson, Ian Watt, Inger Signun Brodey, Irene Collins, J.S. Clarke, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jon Spence, Judy Dench, Lionel Trilling, Luis Bunuel, Margaret Drabble, Marilyn Butler, Michael Kellner, Monica Lawlor, Monteiro Belisa, Nancy Butler Jane Austen, Pamela Mooman, Paula Byrne, R.W. Chapman, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Sonny Liew, Vladimir Nabokov
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rann, Andre Gide, Andrew Motion, Anne Hathaway, Audrey Bilger, Ben H. Winters, Caryl Churchill, Catherine Dean, Charles Lamb, Charlotte Bronte, Claire Harman, Colin Firth, Daniel Defoe, David Hirsch, David Lodge, Dominique Enright, Elsemarie Maletzke, Emma Thompson, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Felix Feneon, Fielding, Goldwin Smith, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Howard Jacobson, Jan Fergus, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Leslie Stephen, Lionel Trilling, Maria Edgeworth, Michael Kellner, Michael Thomas Ford, Moliere, Monteiro Belisa, Pamela Mooman, Philip Roth, Richard Simpson, Robert Morrison, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Leith, Sandie Byrne, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Stephane Mallarme, Thackeray, Thomas Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Wayne Josephson, William Hogarth, William James Dawson
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JANE AUSTEN & REGULATED HATRED : Humility and Ruthlessness
“… There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them… they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a year would supply them with the comforts … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Alexander Pope, Ben H. Winters, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, David M. Buss, Edgar Allan Poe, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Heather Jackson, James Gillray, Jane Austen, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Maja Djikic, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Nathalie Portman, P.D. James, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Thomas Rowlandson, Wilkie Collins, William Hogarth, Zoe Brennan
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JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice Over The Finkler Question
…Howard Jacobson grew up in working-class Manchester, to a father who worked as a children’s entertainer and who ran a market stall selling trinkets. Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Leavis. “I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Billie Piper, Charles Dickens, Charles McGrath, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, David Lodge, Edward Said, F.R. Leavis, George Eliot, Howard Jacobson, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, John Mullen, John Wiltshire, Malcolm Bradbury, Michelle Kerns, Rob Bricken, Rowan Pelling, Samuel Johnson, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Finkler Question, Tony Grant
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