{"id":6153,"date":"2019-01-25T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:07:27","slug":"woolf-on-austen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2019\/01\/25\/woolf-on-austen\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Meets Core: Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/jane-austen-woolf-archives\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1548420354\">her 1913 essay<\/a>, Virginia Woolf writes on the merits and failings of Jane Austen. While Woolf describes Austen as &#8220;singularly blessed,&#8221; she also critiques Austen&#8217;s lack of rebellion of her &#8220;artificial&#8221; life. For Woolf, Austen someone satirizes middle class life and the fools who inhabit it, but never fully pushes away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she feels her Clarissa Dalloway and Elizabeth Bennet should duke it out for claim to most rebellious middle class woman?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her 1913 essay, Virginia Woolf writes on the merits and failings of Jane Austen. While Woolf describes Austen as &#8220;singularly blessed,&#8221; she also critiques Austen&#8217;s lack of rebellion of her &#8220;artificial&#8221; life. For Woolf, Austen someone satirizes middle class life and the fools who inhabit it, but never fully pushes away from it. Perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,477,3857,48628],"tags":[5176,48659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153"}],"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\/7336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}