Must stop can't stop
I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 11, 2014
Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 14, 2014
Manga Lizzy
The Japanese seem to be fond of Jane Austen – there is a Jane Austen Society of Japan, a Japanese scholar spoke at one of the Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 16, 2014
Ready for Lizzy?
Janeites come in all political flavors, and I have no desire to split our cheerful community along partisan lines. But I hope we can all...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 12, 2014
Highlighting the highlighted
More fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 29, 2014
JA makes the cut
A flurry of excitement in the British press over the release of new curricular guidelines for the UK’s English literature exams for high...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 15, 2014
Underwater Austen
Last week, the U.S. Navy and its tech partner announced plans to outfit submarines with a brand-new secure e-book reader called the NeRD...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 24, 2014
P&P & Quilts
Visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum, fondly known as Chawton Cottage, love to admire the patchwork quilt stitched by Austen, her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 20, 2014
Darcy in Lilliput
When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 24, 2014
Martin Amis: Saved by Jane Austen
I’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2013
Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2013
Judging books by their covers
Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...
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