I read Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, by Marliyn Butler (1975), on the recommendation of an old friend, and also because it was footnoted in each of the introductions to each of Jane Austen’s six major novels, all of which I re-read over the last several months.  I’m sure it’s not state-of-the-art Austen scholarship at … Continue reading Jane Austen and the War of Ideas →