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Jane Austen Society of Australia Jane Austen - Antipodean Viewsedited by Susannah Fullerton and Anne Harbers About this book
Jane Austen wrote six novels in a small English village almost 200 years ago. She never travelled abroad and she never mentioned Australia. So why do people "down under" read her novels today? Why do they watch films based on her books in record-breaking numbers? Why do they find her plots, characters and ideas relevant to their lives? Jane Austen - Antipodean Views shows just what Jane Austen means to poets and politicians, singers and students, actors and All Blacks, composers and cartoonists. It includes responses ranging from "Jane who?" to "Reading Pride and Prejudice the first time was like losing my virginity". Share Dame Joan Sutherland's delight in Jane Austen's insight into the social life of her time and Mem Fox's "groans of pleasure" on first being taught Jane Austen at university. Discover why writer John Marsden refuses to read Persuasion. Find out who does NOT like Jane Austen. Enjoy the tale of Murray Ball's attraction to the "bafflingly sexy" Elizabeth Bennet. Whether you are a Jane Austen devotee who reads her novels every year, or have only seen a film based on one of her books you will enjoy the varied and amusing responses in Jane Austen - Anitpodean Views.
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