Social Hierarchies and Subtle Sabotage: Jane Austen’s “Mean Girls”
Bitches in Bonnets is a stunning and irreverent tribute to a fine pairing: women and Jane Austen. In this personal and sociological piece of literary criticism, Makowski…
Saint Jane Austen
Among the realist tradition of writing, I must profess a great fondness for Russian realism. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pasternak strike me as having produced a great corpus…
Marriage and the Marketplace in Jane Austen’s Emma and Mansfield Park
This chapter explores the adverse effects that the marketplace mentality has on social relationships in Jane Austen’s Emma and Mansfield Park.[1] With the ideology of the marketplace…