tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726951603608379154.post8626157622699523331..comments2023-06-19T09:18:34.114-07:00Comments on Tiger Beatdown: Sense and Sensibility: It Is Not Everyone Who Has Your Passion For Dead LeavesSadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12163678207182481274noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726951603608379154.post-79947969869275899552009-06-02T12:01:11.446-07:002009-06-02T12:01:11.446-07:00Very nice piece. I have personally given up on the...Very nice piece. I have personally given up on the people who avoid Austen for fear of catching some type of misogynistic cooties--but it's fun to watch you argue them into the fold! S&S is my least favorite Austen, the only one I've read once; I may have to go back and reread it now.<br /><br />Regarding Austen and the dead baby joke, do you remember the point in Mansfield Park when she makes a joke about male-on-male sex? (It involves a Rear-Admiral and a Vice-Admiral.) I still remember how shocked I was when I figured it out--though of course she does put it in the mouth of Mary Crawford, and we are supposed to be scandalized.<br /><br />Still. None of the Brontes could have gotten away with it.Zahranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726951603608379154.post-17485910261898500582008-12-12T15:08:00.000-08:002008-12-12T15:08:00.000-08:00Exactly! Especially since so much of her work cent...Exactly! Especially since so much of her work centered around deflating Byronic ideas and themes, and since she wrote so many brooding, passionate Byronic characters (Willoughby, obvs, but also Crawford and Wickham to a certain extent) who were invariably revealed to be total douchebag poseurs in the second or third acts of their respective novels. <BR/><BR/>Now I know they tell you not to believe everything on Wikipedia. However, the irony here is too beautiful: Byron's wife was apparently an Austen fan. Check it: <BR/><BR/><BR/>"Anne Milbanke, future wife of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, wrote that "I have finished the Novel called Pride and Prejudice, which I think a very superior work." She commented that the novel "is the most probable fiction I have ever read""<BR/><BR/>Oh, the poor thing.Sadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12163678207182481274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726951603608379154.post-31796875887179849302008-12-12T13:49:00.000-08:002008-12-12T13:49:00.000-08:00Thanks for the newest installment! After reading t...Thanks for the newest installment! After reading the title and the exchange that it comes from, I was seized by a sudden desire to see Austen and Lord "Nobody Understands Me" Byron together in the same room. I suspect Austen would be hardly able to restrain herself from rolling her eyes at him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com