Sense And Sensibility 1: To Wish Was To Hope

This week, we begin our eleventh unit and our discussion of Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense And Sensibility. How are Elinor and Marianne Dashwood compared and contrasted? How sharp is Austen's satire? What exactly makes a flannel waistcoat so unattractive?

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Don't forget to check out my new Tolkien-related show, Shire Reckoning!

Next week, we finish the first volume of Sense and Sensibility, live on YouTube on Thursday, August 14th at 9PM Central.

Footnotes:

• Sense And Sensibility
• Sense And Sensibility (The Norton Library)
• Sense And Sensibility (1995)
• 'Leaving the Herd': How Queer Was Cowper? (Conrad Brunstrom)
• Stars And Swords on Bookshop.org

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What is Stars and Swords: Footnoting Genre Fiction?

Stars and Swords is a weekly podcast dedicated to the exploration, analysis and celebration of genre fiction.