“Many of Jane Austen's admirers, it is true, read her novels as a means of escape into a cozy sort of Old English nirvana, but they find this escape in her pages only because, as E. M. Foster has written,… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
“Today we are less accustomed to look for universal norms in what we read ... partly because we tend to see life, and therefore literature, mainly in terms of individual experience. Jane Austen's own standards were, like those of her… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
“Many of Jane Austen's admirers, it is true, read her novels as a means of escape into a cozy sort of Old English nirvana,… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
“Nor do we need such a great deal of ingenuity to see that all, or nearly all, the great issues in human life make… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
“Today we are less accustomed to look for universal norms in what we read ... partly because we tend to see life, and therefore… — Susannah Carson Copy Share Image
