What’s Jane Got to Do with It?
Sadie at Jezebel takes issue with the media’s habit of wondering what Jane Austen would do with modern problems:
This is not to disparage the scope or appeal of Austen’s work, which obviously owes a good measure of its brilliance to the natural universality inherent to all good writing, and all honest portrayal of emotion…but simply to question the weird “Austen is always applicable” notion that seems to have crept into our culture.
Apparently it’s turning into Austen week here at Girl Detective. More to come, I hope.