![]() ![]() Austen is known for her wit and humor, her sarcastic yet intelligent take on society, and her nuanced and quiet feminism. It was a whirlwind class but it gave me an appreciation of Austen’s brilliance and inventiveness in her work within the contexts of the society she was writing about. We covered all of Austen’s six novels as well as her two uncompleted works, The Watsons and Sanditon. I held out until my senior and was rewarded because Jane Austen appeared on the class roster, and as a senior I had priority so I didn’t get locked out of the class! Super boring authors were offered in my lower years, (Herman Melville, Goethe). A requirement of my college’s English major was that we take a class focused on just one author. ![]() In full disclosure: I’m female and was an English major, so of course I’m a Jane Austen fan. The Jane Austen Book Club is shallow chic lit at its core, trying to parade as something more serious. The weak comparisons to Jane Austen’s famed works aside, the novel suffers from unmemorable, clichéd characters, a slow pace, and a thin plot. This book was boring so Rowdy fell asleep on it. ![]()
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