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The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 19

Love among the stacks

Is Jane Austen a romance novelist? Discuss. Or, if you’re not interested in revisiting your test-taking days, you could just travel to...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 22, 2023

Text and subtext

These days, some thirty years after the literary critic Edward Said first offered a post-colonial reading of Mansfield Park, the idea...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 17, 2022

Not so timeless

As regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 28, 2019

Greatest Hits, Part I

The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2016

Getting it wrong, again

It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2015

Fun! Inspirational! But not Jane Austen!

Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2013

Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books

Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...