tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post116213767923999897..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Reclaiming Jane AustenE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162411166135951922006-11-01T19:59:00.000+00:002006-11-01T19:59:00.000+00:00Now that you've said it, Sarah, it seems really ob...Now that you've said it, Sarah, it seems really obvious that the link would be Bridget. I suppose some chick lit could also be considered romance, but not all of it.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162409269126093712006-11-01T19:27:00.000+00:002006-11-01T19:27:00.000+00:00You know, I think the only reason she's the mother...You know, I think the only reason she's the mother of chick lit is because the first identifiable chick lit was <I>Bridget Jones</I> which is a retelling of <I>Pride and Prejudice</I>. I think she's much more a romance novelist and the way in which she constructs her heroes is still the template for modern romance heroes, much more than her heroines are templates for chick lit heroines--although I guess Emma could certainly be classed as such.Sarah S.G. Frantzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10413768227099945783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162305788601653982006-10-31T14:43:00.000+00:002006-10-31T14:43:00.000+00:00Sarah do you distinguish between romance and chick...Sarah do you distinguish between romance and chick lit? Most people do, I think, but as I haven't read much/any chick lit I don't know what the differences are. I'm fairly sure that Jane has been claimed for chick lit quite a few times, for example <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22819-2004Aug21.html" REL="nofollow"> this article from the Washington Post</A><BR/><BR/><I>"chick lit" tables are smothered with volumes that boast pastel covers and an Austen reference somewhere within (or even in a blurb on the back). Austen, it's been suggested, is the great-great-grandmother of "chick lit" -- that exploding genre about upwardly mobile young women and their wayward travails through the world of modern courtship (and modern-day shopping), mostly set in the best neighborhoods in London or New York.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't see Austen as being particularly about 'upwardly mobile young women' (though I suppose some of her heroines could be read that way. They're nothing like Thackeray's Becky Sharpe, though) and there's not that much shopping (though again, there is some). But maybe that description isn't being particularly fair to chick lit either? How much chick lit is about shopping and upward mobility?<BR/><BR/>[Oh, and apologies for the previous comment. I'd posted a comment here which was supposed to go on another blog: I had too many Blogger windows open at the same time.]Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1162304312783990542006-10-31T14:18:00.000+00:002006-10-31T14:18:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.com