Comments | bronnyelsp: Lockdown and Austen

bronnyelsp

Lockdown and Austen

Jun 12, 2020 11:26

At the beginning of lockdown I did a post on Facebook saying I'd ordered a set of old BBC adaptations of Jane Austen films, and when they'd arrived LO THEY WERE VHS. What should I do? Return them and try to find DVD copies? Wait for lockdown to end and have them converted? Obviously, I went with, buy a DVD player ( Read more... )

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sacramentalist June 12 2020, 13:25:21 UTC

Hi!!!!

Long time no see.

I tried hard to read Mansfield Park and I stalled somewhere during the play production. Need to get back to it.

bronnyelsp June 19 2020, 19:34:08 UTC

Hi! They are alllll wonderful but I think Mansfield Park is my favourite. This is probably slightly coloured by the late 1990s film which was so good that it actually made me forgive it for completely changing the main character's personality; and also brought in elements from Austen's diary and thus made explicit the fact that there is slavery in that novel. (The family own sugar plantations.) Also I wrote my final year undergraduate honours essay on the role of the antagonist in Jane Austen novels, and a fairly hefty section was about Mansfield Park because I ended up deciding that her novels got considerably more morally nuanced as she went on.