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A review by artsybry
Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures by Claudia L. Johnson
1.0
I had to stop. I just had too. Mainly because I just read a ridiculously long paragraph about spoons. Yes you read that right. SPOONS. WTF do spoons have to do with Jane Austen?? I read the paragraph twice and I still have NO IDEA!
This entire book has been a complete struggle for me. I'm sure the author knows her shit and totally knows Jane Austen but she is seriously lacking when it comes to relating that material in a succinct and animated way. Every paragraph was the length of 2-4 paragraphs in any other book - EVEN SCHOLARLY ONES. the vocabulary was if she where writing with a thesaurus in her lap. I mean why use a 1-2 syllable word when you can use an obscure 4-5 syllable word?!? And a third of this book has been references to others writing on Jane Austen and most of the reflections about those writings were snide and degrading.
Im sorry but any book that takes something I am obsessed with, enjoy, and love and turns it into a boring chore that I am begging to be done with is a disservice to that love.
This entire book has been a complete struggle for me. I'm sure the author knows her shit and totally knows Jane Austen but she is seriously lacking when it comes to relating that material in a succinct and animated way. Every paragraph was the length of 2-4 paragraphs in any other book - EVEN SCHOLARLY ONES. the vocabulary was if she where writing with a thesaurus in her lap. I mean why use a 1-2 syllable word when you can use an obscure 4-5 syllable word?!? And a third of this book has been references to others writing on Jane Austen and most of the reflections about those writings were snide and degrading.
Im sorry but any book that takes something I am obsessed with, enjoy, and love and turns it into a boring chore that I am begging to be done with is a disservice to that love.