Farrer on Austen!

[lblanchard]

I have just realized that I never posted a link to the Adobe Acrobat version of Farrer's essay on Austen that I created after receiving it in the mail. So here's the link, and here's a small image of the introductory paragraph:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2O7rBjaqYX4dFNhaERNbC1yUU0/view?usp=sharing

Comments

[pameladean]

Oooof. I will have to come back to this later. The incessant scolding of women lesser than Jane Austen got on my nerves. About the time that he praised Jane Austen for not presuming to know the feelings of men, and then promptly asserts that a majority of women reads for erotic stimulation, I had to stop.

He's also quite wrong about Emma's feelings for her sister.

Lovely perorations, though.

P.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'll have to reread this through the lens of your reactions.