hey jenn!

[ktron]

i was thinking about it, and i blame it all on jane austen. (she may not have created the archetype, but she certainly did a lot to perfect it...)

whaddaya think?

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[ktron.livejournal.com]

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...