tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post6704824721125123090..comments2024-03-29T02:57:53.320-04:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: Claims that Jane Austen Was AmoralArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-17749176179389895002012-06-05T02:12:09.577-04:002012-06-05T02:12:09.577-04:00Also, what on earth have Martin Luther King and Mo...Also, what on earth have Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa got to do with it? i never said anything about them. i said I thought Janr Austen wasn't a saint. Why should she be? She was a very good writer. She wrote about the people of her own class and era superbly. What more do you want? Why should she be a saint?<br /><br />LouiseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-25645287988441154382012-06-04T02:31:51.032-04:002012-06-04T02:31:51.032-04:00Well, having read some of your posts, I think you ...Well, having read some of your posts, I think you are readi g a lot of stuff into her books that isn't there.<br /><br />I think probably a part of the problem is that Jane Austen is perceived as a very feminine writer, and you as a man want to make her seem more butch, so that it's all right for you, a man, to enjoy her books, so you imagine all this mucky stuff about Fanny and Edward really being brother and sister, Jane Fairfax having an illegitimate baby etc, because that makes her more dirty and less feminine and refined.<br /><br />LouiseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-38015511861667913822012-06-03T18:50:49.547-04:002012-06-03T18:50:49.547-04:00Again, Louise, you'd have to do what you proba...Again, Louise, you'd have to do what you probably don't want to do, and browse a bit in this blog, to get a clearer idea of why I claim JA was a radical feminist. You are reading only the surface---an amazingly complex, infinitely interesting and brilliant surface, but still, only the surface, of these miraculous "two-story" novels.Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-54949328116699645992012-06-03T18:43:48.990-04:002012-06-03T18:43:48.990-04:00I can't say I see any evidence in her books of...I can't say I see any evidence in her books of radical feminism. All of her heroines end up married, and delighted to be so. Matrimony is the ultimate goal of all of them, even Emma, the one who is independently wealthy. There are some bad men and some silly men in her books, but there are also bad and silly women. I think she had on the whole a cynical view of human nature, male and female.<br /><br />LouiseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-46187996113891389422012-06-03T18:22:22.460-04:002012-06-03T18:22:22.460-04:00Thanks for clarifying your post, Louise, I agree t...Thanks for clarifying your post, Louise, I agree that she was not a saint, in the sense of being a selfless martyr who sacrificed her life for others. <br /><br />However, if you browse in this blog for 15 minutes, you will see that I could not disagree with you more about Jane Austen not being very interested in causes--I think she was a passionate, dedicated, even radical feminist who strongly cared about the rights and privileges of women in her society.<br /><br />Your Jane Austen is only part of the picture of this extraordinary genius who speaks so strongly to our age as well as her own.<br /><br />Cheers, ARNIEArnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-10548574935409909602012-06-03T15:45:17.518-04:002012-06-03T15:45:17.518-04:00I am not judging her, my comment which you have qu...I am not judging her, my comment which you have quoted was in response to someone else who talked about Jane Austen being considered a 'latter day saint' by some, I replied that it had never occured to me to consider her in that light, I don't think Jane Austen was very interested in causes, but I don't think that matters, she was a brilliant, witty writer, her purpose being to entertain. Causes had no place in her fiction, it wasn't what she was about. She wrote superb novels, that's enough for me.<br /><br />LouiseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com