Not to mention I have a serious problem with P&P being used as the "typical" and "best" Austen novel over, and over, and over, and over again.
Seriously! I mean, I love P&P, but the insistence on it totally skews the way people look at Austen--like the assumption that all of Austen's heroines are like Elizabeth Bennet. So you get all this criticism about how, say, Fanny Price is an aberration from Austen's "usual" style, when she actually has a fair amount in common with heroines like Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood.
Also, Emma/Mr. Knightley forever. :) The short dialogue between them at the Randalls Christmas party ("Your father will not be easy; why do not you go?") is one of my favorite things ever.
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Date: 2010-03-24 05:19 pm (UTC)Seriously! I mean, I love P&P, but the insistence on it totally skews the way people look at Austen--like the assumption that all of Austen's heroines are like Elizabeth Bennet. So you get all this criticism about how, say, Fanny Price is an aberration from Austen's "usual" style, when she actually has a fair amount in common with heroines like Anne Elliot and Elinor Dashwood.
Also, Emma/Mr. Knightley forever. :) The short dialogue between them at the Randalls Christmas party ("Your father will not be easy; why do not you go?") is one of my favorite things ever.