728 x 90

Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

  • Home
  •  
  • Blog 1 Column Left Sidebar

Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • Jane Austen Vindicates the Rights of Women

    Jane Austen Vindicates the Rights of Women0

    Jane Austen’s Lady Susan is a wrecking ball in petticoats. The main character of the new film Love and Friendship, drawn from Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan, is a widowed mother of a marriageable daughter. She is also widely known as “the most accomplished Coquette in England.” She has a married lover. She seduces wealthy young men

    READ MORE
  • Jane Austen Forever!

    Jane Austen Forever!0

    I’ve been reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to my ten-year-old daughter. I admit it was immediately motivated by my desire to watch with her the BBC mini-series, which the book was clearly written in order for them to produce one day. There’s a rule here that they have to do the book before they do the

    READ MORE
  • Jane Austen Fans Deserve Better Than ‘Sanditon’

    Jane Austen Fans Deserve Better Than ‘Sanditon’0

    “Sanditon” will debut on American television on Sunday, January 12 on PBS’ “Masterpiece,” though the series already aired on British television last fall. Fans of Jane Austen have been awaiting Sanditon with bated breath. Austen’s other novels have been adapted for television or film multiple times over the years. Aside from a modernized web miniseries,

    READ MORE
  • Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot

    Jane Austen and the Power of the Marriage Plot0

    In Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, there are two famous proposals of marriage, both addressed to the heroine Elizabeth Bennet. In one, the insufferable toady, Mr Collins, makes her an offer he thinks she can’t refuse; it is lustful and patronising in equal proportions. She makes several attempts to refuse him politely,

    READ MORE
  • Jan Bloch: The man who prophesied World War I

    Jan Bloch: The man who prophesied World War I0

    Looking back on the Great War today, it feels almost inevitable. If a discontented 19-year old Bosnian Serb with the devil’s luck had not managed to put a bullet into the jugular of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on a hot summer day in 1914, something else would have triggered the chain of events that resulted

    READ MORE
  • James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture

    James Monroe is the Latest Victim of the PC Culture0

    In the latest move in what Politico has dubbed the “Nomenclature Wars,” a St. Paul school is considering scrubbing its namesake, President James Monroe, due to his slave-owning past. Matching similar trends around the country, this change is motivated by concern that the school name might not reflect the values of the community. In a

    READ MORE
© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024