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...Geoff—is thrust into the carriage intended for Mary’s midnight escape. “Compromised” by having been seen abroad with Geoff, Letty is encouraged by her parents to marry him. Mr. and Mrs. Alsworthy, who are thinly veiled copies of Jane Austen??s Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, have a clear financial interest in their daughter’s marriage...
...good mother, a terrible mother.”Her real-world childhood would later influence her fiction, which examines the ambiguous relationships between mothers and daughters. For her English thesis, she examined what she calls the “dark side” of mother-daughter relationships in Jane Austen??s novels. But Randall discourages comparisons between her writing and her life.“The character Windsor Armstrong [from Randall’s second novel, “Pushkin and the Queen of Spades”] does attend Harvard University, and she does bear some similarities...
...back on the radar and should prove to be no less enlightening—and amusing—as its fall 2003 CUE Guide ratings proclaim. Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa, who taught the tamer English 147n, “Women and the Novel to Jane Austen?? in fall 2004, appears prepared to once again educate and entertain with topics ranging from “what men and women want” to the “discipline of desire” to the “‘invention’ of pornography...
...back on the radar and should prove to be no less enlightening—and amusing—as its fall 2003 CUE Guide ratings proclaim. Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa, who taught the tamer English 147n, “Women and the Novel to Jane Austen?? in fall 2004, appears prepared to once again educate and entertain with topics ranging from “what men and women want” to the “discipline of desire” to the “‘invention’ of pornography...
Directed by Joe WrightFocus Features4 1/2 starsIt seems impossible that Jane Austen??s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” could be adapted successfully after Laurence Olivier’s 1940 film version, a fantastic 1995 BBC TV mini-series starring (swoon) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and the recent Bollywood comedy “Bride & Prejudice” had mined so much from the material. While director Joe Wright’s version, “Pride & Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than...