Reality TV, Housewives, and Jane Austen
In the library: http://bookslibrarycebu.blogspot.com/2016/01/books-sorted-library-literature-novel-Jane-Austen-Annie-Dillard-writing.html [full text]
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Realism via literary criticism and "idealism" in marriage and love
In The New Yorker , Adelle Waldman writes that For as long as novels have been written, heroines in books by women have studied their beloveds’ minds with a methodical, dispassionate eye. The ideal mate, for Jane Austen’s heroines, for Charlotte Brontë’s, for George Eliot’s, is someone intelligent enough to appreciate fully and respond deeply to their own intelligence [...] Straight male authors devote far less energy to considering the intelligence of their heroes’ female love interests; instead, they tend to emphasize visceral attraction and feelings. From Tolstoy, whose psychological acuity helped to redefine what the novel is capable of, to unabashed chroniclers of sex like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to contemporary, stroller-pushing, egalitarian dad Karl Ove Knausgaard, men have been, in a sense, the real romantics. Titled " The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels ," she shows how Eliot, Austen, and Brontë were all writing against a climate in which female in...
Books sorted (Jane Austen and Annie Dillard)
L:aLB5, L:oLB3, H:aGKC, H:aStb2, H:hStb, H:aStb Lady Susan/The Watsons Sanditon by Jane Austen Jane Austen and Religion by William Jarvis Persuasion by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Jane Austen by Peter Leithart Persuasion by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen H:jB1, H:aS2b The Maytrees by Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard