{"id":2004,"date":"2013-01-25T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2013-01-25T16:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:35:49","slug":"paula-byrne-pride-and-prejudice-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/01\/25\/paula-byrne-pride-and-prejudice-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Byrne: &#8216;Pride and Prejudice&#8217; and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The class of CC202 delves into Jane Austen&#8217;s <em>Pride and Prejudice. <\/em>Here\u00a0the Core presents an article looks at that work from another perspective- politics. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Victorians fostered the idea of Austen as the retiring spinster who confined her novels to the small canvas of village life. In more recent times she has been reinvented as, among other things, a feminist writer, yet it has been difficult to shake off the myth of sequestered, cosy \u201cAunt Jane\u201d, devoted to domestic and romantic issues and studiously ignoring her historical and political context.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Austen\u2019s novels scrupulously avoid the clich\u00e9s of romantic fiction&#8230;\u00a0Nor is it true that the novels ignore their historical context. Austen was no stranger to turbulent times. Most of her adult life was lived through the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. She had two beloved brothers in the navy and one in the army. Her cousin\u2019s husband was guillotined in the French Revolution. She took for granted that her readers would understand the context of her work. If we read\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> carefully, we can see that this is an essential element of the novel. The historical context is there for all to see but because we don\u2019t share it we tend not to notice it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full article can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/on.ft.com\/10TM8JT\">http:\/\/on.ft.com\/10TM8JT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The class of CC202 delves into Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice. Here\u00a0the Core presents an article looks at that work from another perspective- politics. Here is an excerpt: The Victorians fostered the idea of Austen as the retiring spinster who confined her novels to the small canvas of village life. In more recent times she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,2534,4854,4261],"tags":[179,3831,37482,649,37356,37480,37483,37484,72,5572,7640,5178,37481],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}