Reclaiming Jane
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If you’ve ever felt like you’re not “allowed” to like Jane Austen – whether because her work is too white, too academic, or too straight – we’ve been there. And this podcast is for you.
Each episode, we use a different theme to guide our reading through the Austen canon to give you the historical context of each work, draw connections to pop culture, and discover new ways of interpreting old texts.
There’s something in Jane Austen’s novels for everyone. Whether you’re a long-time Austen devotee or have never read a word of her writing, we hope you'll join us in Reclaiming Jane.
Each episode, we use a different theme to guide our reading through the Austen canon to give you the historical context of each work, draw connections to pop culture, and discover new ways of interpreting old texts.
There’s something in Jane Austen’s novels for everyone. Whether you’re a long-time Austen devotee or have never read a word of her writing, we hope you'll join us in Reclaiming Jane.
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We're here for a good time, not for a long time. The topics our audience chose:
The Office
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Waffles
Time travel
Renaissance faires
Mardi Gras
This episode marks the end of "Phase 1" of Reclaiming Jane! We're taking a few months off to doctorize a host and will return in summer 2024 with new readings, discussions, and shenanigans.
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It's our traditional book wrap-up episode, where we reminisce, give advice, and get a little tipsy – now with some unplanned additional reading recommendations?
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It's our final reading episode of Northanger Abbey! Not even Catherine's wild imagination could have predicted these anxiety-inducing events...
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Catherine is seeing a little sunlight after the confrontation in a previous chapter, but conses are quencing elsewhere. There are choices and there are CHOICES, just like there's romancing and there's romanticizing...
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1Catherine's imagination has kicked into high gear – perhaps to the detriment of her relationship with the Tilneys. Join us for a discussion of her particular self-casting as Gothic heroine and a look at who's really working around Northanger Abbey.
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Gothic shenanigans are officially afoot as Catherine and the Tilneys make their way to Northanger Abbey! Pay no mind to that mysterious furniture, look at these renovated windows and spontaneous dance numbers instead.
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You can't keep Catherine Morland down for long. Despite certain disappointments - and alarming developments - it's more important to remember that wishes do come true... While we talk about legal topics and early 2000s dramas, of course.
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Catherine is finally standing up for herself and getting her way - much to John Thorpe's displeasure. There are still plenty of shenanigans afoot, though... Give in to all kinds of temptations in this episode, from the pedantic to the musical!
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Red flags abound as we follow Catherine deeper into the ever-more-Gothic novel of her life in Bath! An episode featuring some of our favorite subjects: friendship, fashion, and... a little light kidnapping?
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We have almost as much to say as John Thorpe does. Catherine's social
circle is expanding with characters new and old – plus we'll take you on
a shopping spree, a desert vacation, and an extremely targeted new
campaign.
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Catherine Morland makes a friend! Catherine Morland had better not even THINK of betraying that friend. We've got authorial tangents, boiled egg water, and infamous rom-com (not Gothic) betrayals in this second episode on Northanger Abbey.
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We're starting our final novel with gusto! What exactly is the deal with Austen's first and last heroine, Catherine Morland, and why is she
unfit for the job (in her own opinion)?
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Your regularly scheduled guaranteed chaos episode is here. The contenders this time around:
Dungeons & Dragons
Food Network
Charles Darwin
lesbians
magical realism
Barbie
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Despite our best efforts, we've made it to the end of Persuasion. This time we're sharing our final thoughts and the traditional tipsy advice for certain characters.
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We stretched it out as long as we could, and we still weren't prepared for this book to end. Join us for the final chapters of Persuasion, some overdue historical questions, and deliciously painful fiction tropes.
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Certain characters really leaned into the episode theme of "generosity"... Anne is finally trusting her own intuitions while we enthusiastically cheer her on. Plus, Italian translation and a little Swiftie moment (accidentally anticipating the week's news again, oops!).
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Okay, maybe moderation isn't everything. Anne continues to have a mediocre time in Bath as expected, but there are some very unexpected events brewing... We're also brewing beauty content and a little Downton Abbey moment!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Join us in following Anne from old haunts to new neighborhoods while she grapples with her own perceptions and those of everyone around her (but especially the other Elliots). Plus, for your entertainment, a bit about Bath and an impromptu book review!
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This episode's theme of "completion" is mostly notable in its absence, but we're covering plenty of drama: from the text itself, to an infamous historical figure, to the things that linger uninvited...
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It's a contemplative kind of episode - let's talk about the exquisite agony of estrangement and Mary Musgrove's chronic FOMO.
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I think for the rankings of love-interests, you need subcategories: self-proclaimed suitors (e.g. John Thorpe, Mr. Collins), characters that seem at first like real suitors but aren't (e.g. Willoughby, Wickham, Frank Churchill), and the ones the heroines end up marrying. I think Crawford is objectively awful (his goal, remember, is to make Fanny fall in love with him so he can break her heart), but can seem less awful because in the other choice is Edmund Bertram.
When I reread Northanger Abbey a few years ago I was struck by just how familiar John Thorpe was. We have all met his modern incarnation: the self-centered dude who doesn't hear the word "no" and doesn't understand how a woman could reject such a nice guy as himself.
FWIW, "Benwick" is pronounced "Bennick." The English do that kind of thing a lot with names: there's a pronunciation that you just have to know. My favorite is "Featherstonhaugh," which is pronounced (wait for it...) "Fanshaw."
I've now read a large chunk of the P&P/Parent Trap fanfic, and it's quite good! The author seems to really know the source material and adapts it well to a modern setting. She does seem to hew closer to "Lottie and Lisa" (the book on which Parent Trap was based) than to the movies.
Six degrees of Benedict Cumberbatch: he and Jon Lee Miller starred in a London stage play of Frankenstein (they played the parts Frankenstein and the monster, switching parts from show to show). Miller has played both Mr. Knightly (in the 2009 BBC adaptation of Emma) and Edmund Bertram (in the 1999 Mansfield Park). He also apparently played one of Fanny Price's little brothers (not William) in a 1983 adaptation of MP.
I don't think Knightley was really in love with Emma when she was 13. I think he's projecting his current feelings backward.
Mr. Knightley does not approve of punching down.
In Austen, charming men are nearly always bad news. The only one of her male protagonists who is charming is Henry Tilney (Wentworth is dashing, but not charming). Most of the charming men are villains, or, in the case of Frank Churchill, half a villain. Do not trust charming men! They are hiding something!
This episode really needed better editing.
I forget who it was who suggested to me the wrong but interesting idea that Marianne's mysterious illness is a miscarriage.