http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2007/04/18/sense-and-sensibility/ Your home for traditional conservatism. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2007/04/18/sense-and-sensibility/comment-page-1/#comment-19852 Robert Alpert Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:37:17 +0000 http://temp.macdock.com/chroniclesmagazine/?p=20#comment-19852 Excellent article. As it happens I'm teaching a seminar on Jane Austen--the aim of which is to rescue her from the "chicklit" image which has in effect turned her into a precursor of Danielle Steele. Sense and Sensibility is a very great novel--I mean very great as in Shakespeare Homer (she must have read Pope or Cowper's translations) Would not Dr. Fleming agree that while she has no use for mush( in fact understands it as destructive) and views "Improvement" suspiciously ("the idol of our age" Cowper) She would welcome feeling rooted in good judgement? Just as she despises Lord Chesterfield's notion of "manners" she welcomes the word as used by Dr. Johnson. I wish you had said more about her. The barbarians are after her and like Elinor and Marianne she needs protection from the new Lucy Steeles and Willoughbys of this world whose only purpose is to tempt and corrupt. Excellent article. As it happens I'm teaching a seminar on Jane Austen--the aim of which is to rescue her from the "chicklit" image which has in effect turned her into a precursor of Danielle Steele. Sense and Sensibility is a very great novel--I mean very great as in Shakespeare Homer (she must have read Pope or Cowper's translations) Would not Dr. Fleming agree that while she has no use for mush( in fact understands it as destructive) and views "Improvement" suspiciously ("the idol of our age" Cowper) She would welcome feeling rooted in good judgement? Just as she despises Lord Chesterfield's notion of "manners" she welcomes the word as used by Dr. Johnson. I wish you had said more about her. The barbarians are after her and like Elinor and Marianne she needs protection from the new Lucy Steeles and Willoughbys of this world whose only purpose is to tempt and corrupt.

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