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Jane Austen Changes Her Mind.

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From: American Scholar
Date: 19990322
Author:CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER

The novels of Jane Austen have been variously interpreted as supporting conservative or feminist views. These views are generally characterized as unchanging throughout Austen's body of work. However, 'Persuasion,' her final novel' is a departure from her previous books that offers a wider view of the world.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that in the last few years Jane Austen has become nearly everyone's favorite pre-twentieth-century novelist. How much Hollywood and the BBC should be credited for this turn of events is hard to say--cause or effect?--but recent films and ...

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