Tag Archives: Pride and Prejudice

Sanditon’s Disappointing Ending

By Robin Bates | Published: February 26, 2020

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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Card Playing in Jane Austen

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2019

Card playing shows up in all of Jane Austen’s major novels but means different things at different times.

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Robert Mueller as Jane Bennet?!

By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2019

Friday In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade explains to femme fatale Bridget O’Shaughnessy why he’s arresting her for the murder of Miles Archer, even though he’s madly in love with her. “When a man’s partner is killed,” he says, “he’s supposed to do something about it.” That’s essentially what Robert Mueller was telling Congress in […]

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Imagine Lit Characters in Reality TV

By Robin Bates | Published: January 24, 2019

Thursday I came across this enjoyable tweet from one Ross Danniel Bullen, who imagines a Victorian version of the House Hunters television show: Host: I— Henry James: I should like a kitchen whose concept is – how shall I conceive of it – not closed, not in some way occluded, but bright, agape, unrestrained as […]

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Austen: Standing Up to Harassers

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2018

Jane Austen has powerful lessons for those battling systemic sexism.

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Rightwing Evangelicals Bind with Briars

By Robin Bates | Published: October 29, 2017

Studies show that college does not turn young people away from religion. In fact, literature and humanities courses can strengthen faith.

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On Reading Pride & Prejudice 100 Times

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2017

Teaching a classic too regularly can lead to its losing its luster for the teacher. I share how I keep that from happening.

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Why the Alt-Right Austen Takeover Will Fail

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2017

The alt-right has tried to appropriate Jane Austen. Their readings are alternately hilarious and horrifying.

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Bannon: Deconstructionist or Con Man?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 26, 2017

When Steve Bannon said that he plans to “deconstruct” the administrative state, it sounds vaguely impressive but maybe just be a pretentious way of saying that he’s planning on gumming up the works. A discussion of deconstruction is in order.

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