Sense And Sensibility 5: Dropping Eaves

 This week, we continue our discussion of Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility. How are the Miss Steeles revealed to be undesirable types? Why does Mrs. Jennings set up a great conflict, then immediately resolve it? Just how feminist is Austen anyway?

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

Next week, we finish Sense and Sensibility, live on Patreon on Thursday, September 18th at 9PM Central. 

Footnotes:

• Sense And Sensibility
• A Calendar for Sense and Sensibility
• Sense And Sensibility (1995)
• Stars And Swords on Bookshop.org

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Alastair Stephens

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.