![]() ![]() (I think this is true for anything-the Bible, the American Constitution, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens. That means we need to understand a book in its original context before we start applying it to today’s world. Every book, even a masterpiece, yields a little more if its assumptions, its language, are understood” (Butler, 3-4). ![]() Next time we’ll look at Jane Austen, The Secret Radical, by Helena Kelly, which shocks readers with another approach.īoth would agree, though, that: “no book is improved by being taken out of its context. My favorite (let’s be honest-because it agrees with what I already thought!) is Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, by Marilyn Butler. I recently read two books offering very different ideas about Jane Austen’s approach to religion. “Remember that we are English, that we are Christians.” Henry Tilney, Northanger Abbey Two Books on Jane Austen’s Assumptions ![]()
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