First things first: I love Jane Austen's novels. They are clever, often biting in their social commentary, and give us a picture of everyday life during the Regency era.So, I was a little surprised when author William Deresiewicz started off the book by telling us how much he hated Jane Austen when ...
This is a strange little book. It's part literary criticism, part biography, part autobiography, and part rambling on the nature of the various relationships we all find ourselves in. The author had a number of really good insights, but sometimes his modernist worldview got in the way and he could n...
I was wandering my library shelves when I found this book. What drew me wast the fact that it was about Jane Austen but was written by a man. I have never heard more disparaging comments about Jane Austen than from men who have never read her work. I took it home and was completely sucked in. In fa...
This made me want to reread every single Jane Austen novel, starting with Northanger Abbey. Henry Tilney 4 life.Also, this man has serious father issues.
I'm a graduate student studying English, and it's a welcome change to find flattering literary criticism concerning Jane Austen. I'm not sure why critics always attack Austen, but I was pleasantly surprised by Deresiewicz's book. He points out lessons he learned from reading Austen, and applie...
The author moves through Austen's books while giving commentary on what they mean as well as highlighting with his own experiences and how the novels helped him.I will read this book again after I've read all six Austen novels.
Part memoir, part literary analysis. The author uses Jane Austen's novels to illuminate certain periods of his life as a young man. His emphasis is on the lessons each novel conveys. It is interesting to examine her novels this way as indeed Austen likely intended them to be read. As a lover of he...
This was a book on Jane Austen's novels that I wish I had in my own college days. The author is a young, arrogant graduate student who starts to see his own flaws, and grows up in the three years that it takes him to work his way through the six novels and his dissertation. Very readable, a touch pr...
For some it might be just another Jane Austen-related book, for me it was equally delightful and useful. Useful, as in: Look! There's more Jane Austen trivia I had no idea about. Far from being a Janeite or an Austenite, or how on earth they call themselves (I've only read Pride and Prejudice. Shame...
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