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Tag Archives: Jane Austen
Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic
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Jane Austen Can Change Your Love Life
“Jane Austen Book Club” makes the point that great literature can in fact change your life.
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Is Mitt Romney a Doctor Faustus?
If Mitt Romney sells his soul for the nomination, can he get it back? Christopher Marlowe would say that it doesn’t look good.
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If Jane Austen Used Facebook . . .
To update Jane Austen, my class took eight of her characters from “Sense and Sensibility” and put them in Facebook conversation with each other.
Among Reread Authors, Jane Austen Is #1
Readers often reread Jane Austen to reassure themselves that order can be found in a chaotic world.
Jane Austen & My Son’s Secret Wedding
A secret marriage entered into by my son Toby could have been taken straight out of Jane Austen’s “Emma.”
Jane Austen’s Musings on Memory
The minds translates the helter-skelter of events into tidy narratives, often to the detriment of what really happened. Fanny Price in “Mansfield Park” muses on this phenomenon.
An Austen Dinner for the Ages
On Sunday my Jane Austen First Year Seminar students came to my housefor a meal that we took out of the “Jane Austen Cookbook.” The meal took two days to prepare and four people to serve.
