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JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS

The desires of  Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading

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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF

Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading

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