Admiral Croft's Orange Face and Mary Musgrove's Red Nose
http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/03/sir-walters-wit-yellowed-admirals.htmlIn my post, above, I demonstrated the 3 thematically interrelated layers of meaning carried by that simple color...
View ArticleJane Austen the Freest of Spirits
By serendipity, today I came across “Jane Austen as Free Spirit”, a 1987 review of Tony Tanner’s widely influential take on each of the six novels, a review written by C.B. Cox, who I am guessing is...
View ArticleThe Complex Concealed Allusion to Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT in Jane...
The other day, I made what I consider an extraordinary discovery in my literary sleuthing, and I reported then that it met several precise specifications. Now I will reveal those specifications,...
View ArticleCalling All Janeites & Twainites: Mark Twain Was An Austen Shadows Savant!
One very fortunate aspect of my decade-long research on Jane Austen can best be explained by the metaphor of a puzzle grid (think of sudoku, crosswords or any type of puzzle you like to do).I think of...
View ArticleFuture Admiral Frank Austen's Admirable Admonition As To of the Shark of the...
Apropos my three recent posts about Sir Walter Elliot's color-coded wit relative to all things nautical in...
View ArticleJames Edward Austen-Leigh’s Hyper-Hypocrisy: “…I have long thought too meanly...
More than three years ago, I wrote at length about the profound hypocrisy of (the 75 year old) James Edward Austen-Leigh (aka JEAL), in his engaging in a variety of rather outrageous authorial deceits...
View ArticleThe Frank Austen Code
In followup to...http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/04/future-admiral-frank-austens-admirable.html ...with a little more digging, I found that Frank Austen’s naval service in the West Indies...
View ArticleP.S .re The Frank Austen Code
In Janeites, Rita Lamb wrote: “If Frank was a precise, evangelical Christian at a time when naval officers generally weren't – and different enough from the norm to make others see him as quite a...
View ArticleMark Twain Emulates Jane Austen AGAIN!
Apropos my most recent post about Mark Twain and Jane Austen….http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/04/calling-all-janeites-twainites-mark.html….and pending my fulfilling my promise, as promptly...
View ArticleDoes Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Covertly Allude to Jane Austen’s Emma?
Yesterday in Janeites, Michael Chwe, author of a wonderful new book about Jane Austen viewed through the lens of game theory, wrote in passing about Herman Melville's novel White Jacket, and I...
View ArticleDoes Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Covertly Allude to Jane Austen’s Persuasion?
And now, as a companion to my immediately preceding post about Moby Dick and Emma….http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/04/does-herman-melvilles-moby-dick.html….I now will briefly examine the...
View Article“I Didn’t Believe A WORD of It!” --- Deirdre Le Faye’s Sly Joke on Me?
Ever since the summer of 2009, I have ended all of my presentations about Jane Austen’s shadow stories with an anecdote which always gets a big laugh (thanks in part to the wacky PowerPoint slide that...
View Article“…how the Giaour was to be pronounced….as if he meant to be understood…”:...
The following famous passage in Chapter 11 of Persuasion describes Anne Elliot’s and Benwick’s first colloquy with each other about romantic poetry: “…though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had...
View Article"I know nothing of the Miss Owens."…. “how can one care for those one has...
From time to time, we Janeites amuse ourselves talking about topics on the edges of the stories told in the novels, as opposed to the familiar central themes and characters. One such peripheral topic...
View ArticleP.S. re "I know nothing of the Miss Owens."…. “how can one care for those one...
As I often do, I was just rereading the post I sent earlier today under the above the Subject Line (minus the P.S., of...
View Article"Every savage can dance” --“the most illiterate are in some measure able to...
In followup to my recent posts about the unseen Miss Owens in Mansfield Park, I was checking to see if the name “Owen” might in some way also be a veiled allusion to the famous Scottish utopian...
View ArticleWhat Famous Secret Janeite am I talking about?
Okay, I am thinking of a story, and the author of that story, with all of the following elements: . It takes place in England during the Napoleonic Wars.2. The heroine and hero almost get engaged but...
View ArticleThe Satiisfaction of Living on Quality Street Which Even Religion Cannot Give
Here is the quiz I presented yesterday:http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-famous-secret-janeite-am-i-talking.html In Janeites, Louise Culmer and Ros Gordon have both given the correct...
View ArticleJane Austen's Omniscient Narrator....or Her Heroine's Subjective Projections...
"Austen's approach to omnipresence, our third aspect of omniscience, is perhaps the most idiosyncratic aspect of her handling of point of view. Oddly enough, an Austen narrator can only read minds...
View Article"have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
"have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" It just occurred to me yesterday, after umpteen readings of Pride & Prejudice, that it is very odd that nobody (not the narrator, nor any...
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