Tag Archives: Jane Austen

The Centrality of Fiction to Our Lives

By Robin Bates | Published: March 18, 2014

Jonathan Gottschall’s “How Stories Make Us Human” is an enlightening book with some limitations.

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Jane Austen, Must Reading for Scientists

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2014

Jane Austen can serve as a warning to scientists about confirmation bias.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged confirmation bias, Michael Chwe, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Science, scientific method | Comments closed

Is Emma RGIII or Richie Incognito?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 30, 2013

Some of the dramas in Jane Austen can also be found in the NFL.

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Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals

By Robin Bates | Published: November 21, 2013

Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Beggar's Opera, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, Far from the Madding Crowd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Eyre, John Gay, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Marriage, marriage proposals, Moll Flanders, Oscar Wilde, Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Hardy, Wife of Bath | Comments closed

Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2013

To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, John Milton, John Steinbeck | Comments closed

Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2013

Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged As You Like It, Charlotte Bronte, Daneil Defoe, Doll's House, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Mansfield Park, Moll Flanders, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Portrait of a Lady, Scarlet Letter, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Jane Austen to Grace £10 Note

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2013

The good and the bad of Austen appearing on British £10 note

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No More Privacy–And We Don’t Care

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2013

We no longer fiercely guide our privacy, as did the worlds of Austen, Trollope, Thoreau, and Melville.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Pride and Prejudice, privacy, Samuel Johnson, surveillance | Comments closed

Jane Austen, Mistress of Manipulation

By Robin Bates | Published: April 26, 2013

A new political science text shows that Jane Austen has a shrewd understanding of game theory.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Game Theory, Power, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility | Comments closed