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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Matthew Chapter 7 in Mansfield Park

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Looking at the spectacular allusion in MP Chapter 6 to the verses in Matthew Chapter 7 about good fruit and bad fruit, led me to revisit all...

A New Shakespeare Blog that demands to be read!

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I just today became aware of the following Shakespeare blog that demands to be read by anyone who loves Shakespeare, and wants to read insig...

A truth universally acknowledged....and a report universally contradicted!

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An interesting exchange occurred in Janeites today. First Deb Barnum responded to my earlier comments about the opening phrase of Pride and ...

The Sermon(s) on the top of the hill

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Mary Crawford... http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2011/01/sapient-fruit-mary-crawford-offers-to.html ......
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Another truth universally admitted...

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Purely as a byproduct of my looking at contemporary (to JA) usages of variants on the "truth universally acknowledged" meme, I cam...

Acknowledged truths, pride, prejudice....and Warren Hastings, again!

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In Janeites and Austen L, Anielka Briggs posted her claim to have discovered a previously unknown allusion in the title of Pride and Prejudi...

Jane Austen's Deployment of Ambiguity

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Nancy Mayer's response in Janeites to my recent posts about Warren Hastings's trial give me the opportunity to clarify one crucial a...
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Arnie Perlstein
Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a 72 year old independent scholar (still) working on a book project about the SHADOW STORIES of Jane Austen's novels (and Shakespeare's plays). I first read Austen in 1995, an American male real estate lawyer, i.e., a Janeite outsider. I therefore never "learned" that there was no secret subtext in her novels. All I did was to closely read and reread her novels, while participating in stimulating online group readings. Then, in 2002, I whimsically wondered whether Willoughby stalked Marianne Dashwood and staged their “accidental” meeting. I retraced his steps, followed the textual “bread crumbs”, and verified my hunch. I've since made numerous similar discoveries about offstage scheming by various characters. In hindsight, it was my luck not only to be a lawyer, but also a lifelong solver of NY Times and other difficult American crossword puzzles. These both trained me to spot complex patterns based on fragmentary data, to interpret cryptic clues of all kinds, and, above all, not to give up until I’ve completed the puzzle--and literary sleuthing Jane Austen's novels (and Shakespeare's plays) is, bar none, the best puzzle solving in the world!
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