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- The Byronic in Jane Austen's persuasion and "Pride and Prejudice"
- Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen engaged closely with Byron's poetry and drew inspiration from some of his most popular poems. The first part of the article focuses on Romantic, and specifically Byronic, undercurrents in Persuasion. I subsequently...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
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- Portrait of a lady; Jane Austen.(Is this Britain's most-loved author?)
- No plain Jane she Is this Britain's most-loved author? FEW writers are as revered as Jane Austen. According to a poll in March, "Pride and Prejudice"--a romance without a single kiss--is the book Britons love most. Austen adaptations abound: the...
- Research articles 2007-04-21
- True or False: Jane Austen Outsells Alice Walker and Ann Coulter
- Jane Austen probably can't compete yet with Shakespeare or Dickens--and certainly not with the Bible--for the greatest number of adaptations, tie-ins, tchotchkes and other epiphenomena. Dickens has a theme park in Chatham, England, while the Austen-themed resort called Pembrook Park exists so far only in "Austenland," a just-published chick-lit novel...
- Research articles 2007-07-02
- Austen's Power -- Longing for Civility in an Uncivil World Draws500 to 5-day Immersion in Jane Austen's Regency Period at LA Summit
- LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As contemporary life becomes increasingly uncivil, 500 Jane Austen devotees will spend five days reveling in a world where courtesy ruled the day. Enthusiasts, fans and scholars from all over the US and Canada, six from the U.K. and one from Japan, are...
- Research articles 2004-10-05
- Jane Austen your cup of tea? Warm yourself with these
- Jane Austen enjoyed a prolific screen decade in the 1990s. Now she's back with a new film version of Pride & Prejudice, opening Friday, that at least will get Keira Knightley out of that awful Domino eye makeup. Until then, here are three or four rewarding ways to go: ...
- Research articles 2005-11-08
- A touch of Jane Austen
- Breathless Elizabeth Bennetts, accompanied by their ever-attendant Mr D'Arcys (as played by Colin Firth in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice, above), are being invited to a Jane Austen-style ball this year. Guests are being encouraged to don sumptuous Regency costumes to recreate a mansion party at Cannon Hall's historic ballroom....
- Research articles 2004-08-09
- Persuasive performances prevail over very un-Jane-like flourishes
- Persuasion PBS, Sunday, 9 ET/PT *** --- If you're launching a Jane Austen festival, shouldn't you show a little more faith in her? Not absolute fidelity, mind you: Print and screen are different mediums....
- Research articles 2008-01-11
- Lights, Camera, Austen
- Haven’t seen enough Jane Austen movies lately? Good, because PBS now has all six novels on film. Jane Austen movie mania is so pervasive you can’t be blamed for picturing your favorite Austen heroine not from the page but from the screen. But how do you like your Emma—fair...
- Research articles 2008-01-21
- 'Becoming Jane' witty, well-acted
- BECOMING JANE -- *** -- Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters; rated PG (vulgarity, violence, brief nudity, mild profanity, brief sex, slurs) "Becoming Jane" tries to tell the life story of author Jane Austen by turning her into a tragic romantic character that might have come from one...
- Research articles 2007-08-10
- Austen's 'Sensibility' comes through
- In a little cottage, a carriage ride from the good life, sweet sisters grope for romance. They meet men -- some of them good, many of them bad, most of them stoic. They cope. That's the theme for "Sense and Sensibility," the richly crafted miniseries that arrives March...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Austen's power: pride and prejudice.(videos)(Video Recording Review)
- Universal, color, PG, 127 min. plus supplements, Dolby Digital 5.1, widescreen, Street: Feb. 28, $29.98; First Run: L, Nov. 2005, $37 mil. Enthusiasts of Jane Austen's classic novel and lovers of the definitive 1995 BBC film version might have been skeptical of another...
- Research articles 2006-02-13
- Austen scam exposes publishers' pride and prejudice
- LONDON AFP — A string of publishers failed to spot blatant plagiarism of one of English literature's most famous authors, in a cheeky test to see if she would have secured a book deal today, a report said Thursday. David Lassman, head of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath,...
- Research articles 2007-07-19
- Pride and petroleum. (rumors of partnership involving Swedish auto-maker Volvo and either Chrysler or Mitsubishi)(Brief Article)
- IF JANE AUSTEN had written about European car companies, Volvo would surely have been her favourite character. A little aloof but worryingly poor, the Swedish car maker has had the humiliation of seeing the other girl in the village, Saab, make a succeIF JANE AUSTEN had written...
- Research articles 1996-03-30
- Reading into DVD.(Vidbits)( BBC Video )(Brief Article)
- * Hoping to tune the masses into classic novels, BBC Video is launching an affordable line of its literary TV adaptations. The debut DVD package from the BBC Classics Line, The Jane Austen Collection, includes six films priced at $59.98. Streeting * Hoping...
- Research articles 2004-08-16
- Firth's Darcy was hard act for Macfadyen to follow
- TORONTO -- Keira Knightley may have been only 19 when she signed on for the coveted role of headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, author Jane Austen's most cherished heroine, in the sprightly new film version of Pride & Prejudice that opens in limited U.S. release Friday. But she was all too aware...
- Research articles 2005-11-08
- PBS' 'Sense and Sensibility' is truly a masterpiece
- Sense and Sensibility PBS, Sunday, 9 ET/PT **** out of four --- How sensible of Masterpiece to save the best for last. The closing act in PBS' four-month "Complete Jane...
- Research articles 2008-03-28
- Firth loves taking the lead
- NEW YORK MCT -- Thirteen years have passed since Colin Firth became, as Jane Austen might put it, "universally acknowledged" as the definitive Mr. Darcy in the lionized BBC TV miniseries of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." In the intervening time, the 47-year-old actor has established himself among worldwide...
- Research articles 2008-05-03
- Fanny Price and the comforts of home
- IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, interest in spiritual and physical comfort heightened as British people sought to reposition their houses, bodies, and even souls on a more comfortable plane. Jane Austen participates in changing perceptions of comfort, and, though her novels are suffused with its varied meanings, comfort and its importance...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- What the world is reading. (top ten non-fiction bestselling books in the United States, Britain, France and Germany)(Review of Books and Multimedia)(Brief Article)
- America's two top sellers are about trials: in-court of O.J. Simpson, out-of- court of Bill Clinton. Most other top books are about improving the inner or outer person. British readers stay true to type: pets, military reminiscences, Jane Austen and twAmerica's two top sellers are about trials:...
- Research articles 1996-04-20
- Sundays with Jane: PBS' MASTERPIECE THEATRE to Present 'The Complete Jane Austen'
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- Research articles 2007-05-21
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