{"id":2135,"date":"2013-02-14T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2013-02-14T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:03:43","slug":"ron-rosenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/14\/ron-rosenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Rosenbaum on the Jane Austen &#8216;hype&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to CC202&#8217;s study of Jane Austen&#8217;s <em>Pride and Prejudice, <\/em>the Core offers an article by\u00a0Ron Rosenbaum, titled<em> Is Jane Austen Overhyped?- Evaluating her literary merit amid the Anniversary reverence<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The subject it deals with is important, and relevant to all classics- how much good does exaggerated celebration their anniversaries really do? Here is a sample, in which Ron Rosenbaum shares his thoughts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not that she\u2019s overrated. It\u2019s that she\u2019s in dire jeopardy of being overhyped\u2014and dumbed down in the process&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve begun to feel\u2014in the midst of the tsunami of schlocky, rapturous, over-the-top, wall-to-wall multiplatform celebration of the 200<sup>th<\/sup>anniversary of\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>\u2014that it\u2019s all a bit too much. Something quiet and true about Austen is being lost in the trumpet blasts and the spin-offs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.me\/Xbeb1f\">http:\/\/slate.me\/Xbeb1f<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to CC202&#8217;s study of Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice, the Core offers an article by\u00a0Ron Rosenbaum, titled Is Jane Austen Overhyped?- Evaluating her literary merit amid the Anniversary reverence. The subject it deals with is important, and relevant to all classics- how much good does exaggerated celebration their anniversaries really do? Here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,477,2534,4854,3856],"tags":[44849,44848,44852,44850,44851,5999,37480,37476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"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=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}