Jane Austen never directly reports a protagonist saying “yes” to a marriage proposal. For Valentine’s Day, I explore why.
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Austen: Romance without Words
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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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Lit Steels Spines in Face of Pressure
One answer to how Austen’s Fanny Price resists the unrelenting family pressure to marry Crawford: she has read Richardson’s “Clarissa.”
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Austen’s Mixed Feelings about Gothics
An exploration of Jane Austen’s mixed feelings about the gothic–and about lightweight lit.
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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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Sanditon’s Disappointing Ending
While filled with allusions to the previous novels, the televised “Sanditon” is in the end a let-down. I explore why.
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The Dreadful Sound of Trump (not that one)
Wednesday On Monday I hosted what proved to be a lovely luncheon (an onion tart, ratatouille, and a trifle) for Vanderbilt University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss, who was in Sewanee to discuss a presentation I will be giving at the university on the card game Speculation. Jane Austen fans will recognize it as the game played […]
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