Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
"Too much traffic"
About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
A few pieces
Books
My other blogs
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(553)
-
▼
April
(52)
- Life in the asylum
- What I saw last week
- Thinking about
- "?" "!"
- On laziness
- Indiscretions
- The republic of letters
- Life after potential
- Gulliveriana
- Islomania
- Brilliant/hungry
- Getting past the bouncer of Club Normal
- The other future
- Impedimenta
- Punctuality
- In the cage
- Beyond psychiatric help
- Wichita Kids
- "And also, I didn't want the pigs to eat her"
- Status updates
- Gîte to gîte
- Tapping a vein
- The knowledge
- Photochromes
- "It's unfiction"
- Constituencies!
- Finite
- Sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, salamanders
- The happy medium?
- Powers of Sontag
- Conversations
- Thagomizer, HSK, quark
- Dramatic endings
- Catch-up
- Tearing my hair out
- TMJ
- In the mood
- The new model?
- A burger, a beer
- The liberated lamb
- Jane bites back
- Downright vulgarity
- Missing letters
- Et in Arcadia ego
- Postscript
- Treacle Mine Road
- "The pages turn themselves"
- The End of the County Cheese Princess' Reign
- Jargon
- Survival strategies
- Beasts
- Famous British Librarians
-
▼
April
(52)
Excellent quote.
ReplyDeleteGee. I read the article, and agree with you, but I have a bit of a hard time believing Matthew Keiser: "Austen’s novels are all about women battling internal monsters like their own sexuality, selfishness, and vulgarity. Modern readers can’t quite grasp the horror those women felt for the earthier side of their natures..."
ReplyDeleteAlthough it is true that I utterly fail to grasp that horror when I read Jane.