i knew Jane Austen was the anti-christ...but i never expected her to have done so much to effect my life! and you're right, she did perfect the archetype which was then forced down every teenage girl's throat during the inevitable reading of Pride & Prejudice or Emma or whatever the high school English teachers said you had to read.
grr... i can now blame long dead British writers for my attraction to the 'bad' boys...
i've got a long-term love-hate relationship with ol' jane... i loved pride and prejudice when i read it way back when, but then i tried another... and realized it had the same five characters, the same smug smarminess... yet i'm still hooked enough that i've read most of her novels.
and they all tell us that the socially successful rich handsome obviously-desirable but secretly corrupt gentleman is far less valuable to the intelligent, discriminating woman than the stormy initially obnoxious but in fact virtuous and wonderful etc. one.
and if they haven't had british lit, they've seen clueless or bridget jones...
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Date: 2004-02-17 07:57 am (UTC)i knew Jane Austen was the anti-christ...but i never expected her to have done so much to effect my life! and you're right, she did perfect the archetype which was then forced down every teenage girl's throat during the inevitable reading of Pride & Prejudice or Emma or whatever the high school English teachers said you had to read.
grr... i can now blame long dead British writers for my attraction to the 'bad' boys...
good thinking!
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:20 am (UTC)and they all tell us that the socially successful rich handsome obviously-desirable but secretly corrupt gentleman is far less valuable to the intelligent, discriminating woman than the stormy initially obnoxious but in fact virtuous and wonderful etc. one.
and if they haven't had british lit, they've seen clueless or bridget jones...