Mythsogyny
Join story nerds C Alexandra and John Cordial in their often meandering and illuminating conversations about the stories humans tell themselves, historical, mythological, and legendary, and how no one—not even gods or heroes—can escape misogyny.
Mythsogyny
A Truth Universal? (Jane Austen's Political Legacy)
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It's actually a truth universal that everyone knows that quote. But what of the writer? And what of her politics? Chesnaye takes us on a proper journey through Jane Austen's subversive political undertones. Everyone knows she's one of the greats but did you ever think about how her very existence as a novelist was a political statement? A legend of the literary, her political legacy was softened, but in the pages of her novels, and with a sharpness that could cut the very paper she's printed on, Austen said more about the injustices of our world than we give her credit for.
References:
We've got all six novels of Jane Austen, plus Lady Susan from her juvenilia.
A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
Jane Austen's Letters ed by Deirdre Le Faye
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser
The Life and Works of Jane Austen from The Great Courses
