The Unfashionable Jane Austen
The Unfashionable Jane Austen
A talk by Prof. Nigel Wood, a past president of the Leicester Lit&Phil, and a Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. By now, Jane Austen has been claimed by costume drama adaptations, but at the time she was an author acutely aware of contentious issues . At the risk of denying her the glamour and … Continue reading The Unfashionable Jane Austen