Rereading Austen: Immodest Proposal, starring Mr. Darcy and Mr. Collins
After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: “In vain I …
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Rereading Austen: Lizzie Bennet Is A Great Reader
“Do you prefer reading to cards?” said he; “that is rather singular.” “Miss Eliza Bennet,” said Miss Bingley, “despises cards. …
Rereading Austen: The Pride of Mr Collins
Jane Austen is not really the name of an author these days. The extraordinary popularity of her works over the …
Commonplace: Jane Austen’s Emma and Mr. Woodhouse’s Crime
Rereading Austen is always fun, and Emma particularly so, not least – as P.D. James pointed out – because so …
Hate Reading and Bad Romance: Reading Honestly
This is my third piece about the “integrity” of discourse, sparked by a passage of Rowan Williams. After I discussed …
O, Negative: Jane Austen, Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
David Mitchell wrote a piece for The Observer recently , declaring that “less is more” when it comes to authors …
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