Tag Archives: Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen’s Thematic Use of Cards

In which I share a talk I will be giving on the thematic significance of card playing in Jane Austen’s novels.

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Alas, Poor Twitter–I Knew Him, Ho-Ratio

Literary allusions have been flying, many with a sense of doom, since Elon Musk purchased Twitter.

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Jane Austen, Fountain of Youth

89-year-old Ruth Wilson finds that rereading Jane Austen keeps her feeling young.

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Jane Austen Will Cure What Ails You

Jane Austen therapy has been prescribed for war vets, London civilians under attack, and people hiding out from Covid.

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Condemned to Read Dickens, Austen

A British judge has ordered a white supremacist to read Dickens and Austen. Why these authors.

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Woolf and On Board Lit Conversations

To move from Jo Nesbo’s Nordic Noir to Virginia Woolf is to experience emotional whiplash.

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Does Lightweight Lit Do Damage?

I look at how thinkers over the centuries have viewed so-called popular or lightweight literature.

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Austen Has Some of Lit’s Best Mean Girls

I survey the meaning of some of my favorite literary mean girls.

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Austen-Like Dating During Covid

Covid is disrupting our dating lives but may as a result have an up-side. Kundera, John Fowles, and Jane Austen explain.

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