What Matters in Jane Austen is a fantastic piece of literary criticism that reveals a lot of new angles on Jane Austen. It’s entertaining, it’s approachable, and it’s incredibly helpful if you want to understand the nuances of Austen that are either very subtle or which would have been obvious to her contemporaries but not so much to modern readers. Critic John Mullan divides his book into twenty short chapters. They don’t need to be … Continue reading What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan →
Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? And which important Austen characters never speak? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen’s brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction – by asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her … Continue reading What Matters in Jane Austen? →
Thanks to @Joonces on Twitter for the heads up: What Matters in Jane Austen? is a nonfiction book that's marked down to $2.99 at BN and Amazon – that's 90% the normal price of $30. Joonces asked if anyone had read it, and Sofia Tokar replied that it's a “GREAT book” though not for the “casual Austen reader” as it is very “in-depth and scholarly.” That said, Sofia added,”I highly recommend for anyone who wants … Continue reading Books on Sale: Austen Nonfiction, and the Start of Much Loved Series →
by SB Sarah · Jan 21, 2013 at 12:29 pm ·
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First, Jim C. Hines' cover reshooting to raise money for the Aicardi Foundation has yielded a cornucopia of silliness. At the recent ConFusion, Jim C. Hines, John Scalzi, Pat Rothfuss, Charles Stross and Mary Robinette Kowal recreated “Young Flandry” – reversing the sex of the models, obviously. Thanks to Carrie S. and many others who forwarded me the link. The result is just majesty. There is a whole depository of hilarity as Jim posts more cover … Continue reading Links! →
