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@mistykrueger 6 ай бұрын

Mansfield Park is the one JA novel, in my opinion, that needs more context in hand to appreciate what Austen was trying to do with the plot and characters. Part of this is because of the way Austen's heroine is introduced for sure.

@linguipixie4720 6 ай бұрын

Hi! This is such a good remark! I only read MF once and didn't really appreciate it because in the end I didn't like Fanny so much (for example, I didn't understand her obsession with the theatricals in the first place) and I found some interactions between the characters very odd (why Mr Crawford suddenly takes an interest in Fanny, why Miss Crawford persues Edmund for so long in spite of his grim prospects (in her view), etc). Maybe a re-read is a good idea now ^^ (I know I sometimes hear that Jane Austen's novels are boring because they're just love stories, or just 'boogie' people sitting in parlours all day, whereas I see so much more in it... when I first read it (also bear in mind that English is not my native language), I understood the general structure of the story but felt like "I don't get the dialogues... I can 'sense' that they're roasting each other but I don't understand about what exactly"; but when I mentioned it to my best friend who had read it in French, in the end, she had the exact same impression, meaning that it wasn't so much the opacity of 19th-century English as the absence of context which made the read difficult for us)

@VCJ731 9 ай бұрын

C'est excellent haha ! Super idée de composer en route vers Jérusalem 😂

@MaximilienSaintCricq 9 ай бұрын

Aneeem

@AinsleyCarson Жыл бұрын

Loved this!. Great presentation! I learned a lot!.

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thanks a lot! <3

@lissag7 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I learned so much watching this video. I may have to reference this with my students to help fill in the gaps of some historical context I always get questions about.

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much, I feel honoured 😎 But mostly glad to be of help!

@StitchinAddiction Жыл бұрын

This was so interesting! I really enjoyed the history on the agricultural revolution and the insight on how Jane uses Darcy's grounds to help characterize him.

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! I really enjoyed your video too! I just love the Virtual JaneCon spirit so much 🥰

@MelsDaven Жыл бұрын

Loved this!

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

@Austen1stDrafts Жыл бұрын

Great presentation! I learned a lot!

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thanks so much! <3

@talkaustentome Жыл бұрын

Just like last year, this was such an insightful presentation! Isn't it amazing how much there is to discover even in just one sentence in Austen's novels? I love what you said about Austen being progressive when it comes to some topics (like women's education), but somewhat conservative in this case. She's such a fascinating author, even - or especially - when you read her critically.

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! I have to say I think this sentence always somehow bugged me, and reading Duckworth and researching this topic was so enlightening 😊

@ohsoisabel Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for the presentation! (honestly, i also wanted more, hehe.) you gave me food for thought. thanks again 💕

@linguipixie4720 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! I didn't have much time to prepare the video and used my 5 year-old presentation to write it and didn't remember enough about the rest "^^ But Duckworth starts by a lengthy analysis of Mansfield Park, in which they actually discuss estate improvement and there are basically 2 teams, the good improvers (Fanny and Edmund) and the bad improvers (Rushworth, Crowford, etc). I'm not a big fan of MF but the read was super interesting ^^