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Re-visiting Jane Austen
How do you perceive Jane Austen’s novels? I have something to say on this topic, and am prompted to say it by this New York Times story about the new approach that’s being taken within the Jane Austen museum in … Continue reading
Posted in political campaigns, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged abolitionism in England, Antigua, Caribbean slave plantations, East India Company, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, slave plantations, slavery in England, slavery in Mansfield Park, West Indies
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A man without heart or conscience…
…”a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who, for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character. He has no feeling … Continue reading
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Tagged Jane Austen, Persuasion, Trump
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What man is this?
[He] is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who, for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Jane Austen, Persuasion, Trump
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