Regarding Jane

Hi Folks,

I am back again. I have fixed a few things in this blog. From now on anyone can post comments on Litbits. U don't have to be a member of this blog.

Back to business again, this is about our dear Jane Austen. Its a full book so U can follow the link i.e., the title of this post, and then read it online or download it and print it. Don't forget to be grateful to university of Florida Library and the author, Bernard J. Paris for this great favor.

Before U follow the link here is a litbit about the book:

"The central thesis of this study is that Jane Austen's mature novels are not the models of organic unity which most critics hold them to be, but that they are beset by tensions between form, theme, and mimesis. As the first chapter will show, these tensions have several sources, the most important of which is the fact that Austen's protagonists are at once aesthetic, illustrative, and mimetic characters. They are "creations inside a creation" and, as such, are "often engaged in treason against the main scheme of the book." Since they have "numerous parallels with people like ourselves," they must be understood not only in formal and thematic, but also in motivational terms, in the same way that we understand real human beings." (Paris, Characters and Conflicts..., 9)

I know this might seem relevant only to the I year students but I guess there is no harm in reading more about Jane Austen in general and Pride and Prejudice in particular especially from the psychological perspective.

Enjoy!!!
Siddharth

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

- Richard Feynman