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The Bank of England put a line about the joys of reading on the Austen tenner, and picked one said by Caroline Bingley, who's only pretending to enjoy her book. That joke is a good way into why Austen keeps getting reread, and how to read her well today.
It covers her narrative voice, what the money in the novels actually meant, love when your options are limited, and class. Then come the arguments about whether she was a feminist or a conservative, the empire offstage in Mansfield Park, gossip as a social network, and her long afterlife from the 1995 adaptation to fan fiction.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (185 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
The Bank of England put a line about the joys of reading on the Austen tenner, and picked one said by Caroline Bingley, who's only pretending to enjoy her book. That joke is a good way into why Austen keeps getting reread, and how to read her well today.
It covers her narrative voice, what the money in the novels actually meant, love when your options are limited, and class. Then come the arguments about whether she was a feminist or a conservative, the empire offstage in Mansfield Park, gossip as a social network, and her long afterlife from the 1995 adaptation to fan fiction.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (185 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.