Tag Archives: Sense and Sensibility

Serving Students a Jane Austen High Tea

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2012

Serving my students a Jane Austen high tea made the novels come alive.

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Jilted by Your Fiancé? Turn to Austen

By Robin Bates | Published: January 30, 2012

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.

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Dear Frustrated in Love: Read a Classic

By Robin Bates | Published: January 25, 2012

Literature is better than any self help book for relationship guidance.

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Is Mitt Romney a Doctor Faustus?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2012

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 . . .

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2011

To update Jane Austen, my class took eight of her characters from “Sense and Sensibility” and put them in Facebook conversation with each other.

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Cinderella vs. Jane Eyre in Soccer Final

By Robin Bates | Published: July 16, 2011

In tomorrow’s World Cup finals, Japan is Cinderella going up against America’s Jane Eyre.

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Ask Jane: Expert Relationship Advice

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2010

“My idea of good company,” says Anne Elliot in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, “is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation.” To which her cousin replies, “That is not good company, that is the best.” I feel that I have emerged from the best of company as my Jane Austen […]

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Dancing in Jane Austen’s Day

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2010

Sports Saturday I realize that social dancing isn’t normally regarded as a competitive sport, but I have a dance story I want to share so I’ll bend the rules of “Sports Saturday.” This one involves an afternoon of dancing where my Jane Austen seminar learned a number of the steps that her heroines engage in. […]

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Lee’s Film Has More Sensibility than Sense

By Robin Bates | Published: November 19, 2010

  Film Friday A while back I wrote about how Patricia Rozema’s film of Mansfield Park sells Jane Austen short. Today I accuse Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) of doing the same. When the film came out, I remember hearing an interview with Lee (maybe on National Public Radio) about how his affinity with Jane […]

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