Tag: Jane Austen

The Bright Flame of Resistance: Star Wars

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|John Costello| Dear H., I’m writing you about a work featuring a bold woman, a man with a fast vehicle, and an ominous edifice, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, in the hope that I can relate your interest in that book to another work. You love the social dynamics of Regency Britain, the… Continue reading

This is What Happens When We Give Women Wuthering Heights

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Baines kisses Ada on the neck against a white wall.

|Veda Lawrence| “Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” For all my adoration for Austen, I must admit that she never wrote a single confession of love that comes close to rivaling even a throwaway sentence in Wuthering Heights in terms of romanticism and ferocity. That said, … Continue reading