Jane Austen - Sarcasm and Subversion
Added 2019-02-01 02:45:28 +0000 UTCJane Austen saw the hypocrisy of an entire class of the most powerful empire on Earth taking tea and planning balls while the world burned. And from a young age she took up arms against that hypocrisy with the only weapon she had: her pen.
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You did a great job with this episode, it was very interesting, informative, and very funny!
Rebecca Kues
2019-02-01 23:46:55 +0000 UTCThere's a Number of Stories about Jane Austen's Ghost Returning to her Beloved Cottage as well as the local Area.
Martin Verran
2019-02-01 23:45:04 +0000 UTC(Comment from Belinda) I don't know if anyone else has had this experience with Jane Austen's works, but in the educational culture I grew up in, the historical context of Austen's writing was almost never emphasized. Pride & Prejudice in particular is frequently reduced to being the original formula for romantic comedies (to say nothing of its own spin-off movies of the same name). I remember in high school class it seemed really weird to me that we would be talking about this 19th century novel as a progressive feminist work because it's already a given in the 21st century world that marrying for love is extremely commonplace. I'm really proud of our writers Jac and Rob, and our artist Ali, for bringing to life the "extra History" of Jane Austen that gets glossed over by popular culture. <3
Extra History
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