We do so love to be patronized by book reviewers
…almost as much as we love being patronized by film reviewers. (Yes, Roger Ebert, we’re looking at you.)
Michelle Buonfiglio of the Hometown Channel schools us purists Janeites, oh yes she does. That is, if your definition of “purist” is someone who can read and has a functioning frontal lobe. Dear.
October 16th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
“Berdoll captures the essential natures of Elizabeth and Darcy, but with a kind of passion even Charlotte Bronte once remarked was absent from Austen’s work.”
Charlotte never got the point and some other people never will. Geez…
October 16th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Because literary achievement is nothing without bodice-ripping, and that is why no-one will ever respect Jane Austen’s work.
Ever.