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...Professor Leo Damsroch, commenting on Jane Austen's Emma in English 10b, Thursday...
HENRY JAMES Jane Austen had her cinematic moment. Portrait of a Lady gives the Master his star turn...
...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...
...Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice costs $7.95 at the Coop for the Penguin Classics edition, whereas the Dover edition at Wordsworth books costs only...
...that has resurrected Jane Austen and girdles seems to have spawned a new sort of woman--someone who doesn't call herself a woman at all but a Rules Girl. A Rules Girl is "a creature unlike any other." A Rules Girl knows better than to ask a man out--or even talk to a man first; she is "easy to be with" but hard to get because she is very, very busy. Three decades after Helen Gurley Brown's classic Sex and the Single Girl offered women the heady advice that men are "cheaper emotionally and a lot more...