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Men on Austen

Oct 06, 2005 09:24

D. A. Miller’s Jane Austen, or the Secret of Style is a very short book, extremely well written, dense with fascinating thought. Disquieting thought, even, as I find myself wanting to explain, excuse, make everything nice when he discusses the comfortable het world’s assumptions about Austen's books from a non-het POV. Like his analysis of the ( Read more... )

gender, books, jane austen

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tharain October 6 2005, 19:15:00 UTC

Well. My commentary is too long for here, it seems. I'll post it in my LJ.

This has nothing to do with anything stallion1812 October 7 2005, 00:57:48 UTC

I'm really sorry because this has nothing to do with anything that you just said, but I'm doing a project on Wren's series for English. The assignment is kind of complicated, but I was wondering if you could possibly, some way, send me a copy of a map of Wren's world. I would use the one in the book but it is small and only of one part of the world.

I'm Miranda, by the way, I think I forgot to menion that, a fan and a crazy reader/writer/actor.

Re: This has nothing to do with anything sartorias October 7 2005, 01:14:14 UTC

How much more do you need? The reason I ask is the only map I have is a real mess--I have bits of maps for some of the other stories on Wren's world, but the original Wren one got lost years and years ago.

The 30 year old map I've been working from since is all scribbled over, with tears and stains, and arrows, and incomprehensible comments!