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JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART
…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading
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JANE AUSTEN “UNAWARES”: Spontaneous Dislike As A Virtue
“Austen’s comedy participates in the Western tradition of komos –that is, comedy as a revelry in mischief. Liberated from what Charles Lamb calls “the burden of a perpetual moral questioning,” Austen’s mischievous humor specializes in truths uncongenial to the sentimentally-based … Continue reading
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PRIDE before PLEASURE: ROMANCE As An Utterly Suspect Pretension
“À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I mean a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, George Lewes, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Maria Edgeworth, Mark Twain, Mary Russell Mitford, Michelle Kerns, Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. A.G. Lestrange, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence, Tim Killick
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