The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”
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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?
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Jilted by Your Fiancé? Turn to Austen
A student distraught when her fiance dropped her used Jane Austen’s ironic wit in “Sense and Sensibility” to regain perspective and reenter the world.
Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic
Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.
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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.
