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Audrey Rouget:
By Tolstoy, "War and Peace" and by Jane Austen, "Persuasion" and "Mansfield Park". Tom Townsend:
"Mansfield Park"? You've got to be kidding. Audrey Rouget:
No. Tom Townsend:
But it's a notoriously bad book. Even Lionel Trilling, one of her greatest admirers, thought that. Audrey Rouget:
Well, if Lionel Trilling thought that, he's an idiot. Tom Townsend:
The whole story revolves around, what the immorality of a group of young people putting on a play. Audrey Rouget:
In the context of the novel it makes perfect sense. Tom Townsend:
But the context of the novel, and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote is near ridiculous from today's perspective. Audrey Rouget:
Has it ever occurred to you that today, looked at from Jane Austen's perspective would look even worse?
By Tolstoy, "War and Peace" and by Jane Austen, "Persuasion" and "Mansfield Park". Tom Townsend:
"Mansfield Park"? You've got to be kidding. Audrey Rouget:
No. Tom Townsend:
But it's a notoriously bad book. Even Lionel Trilling, one of her greatest admirers, thought that. Audrey Rouget:
Well, if Lionel Trilling thought that, he's an idiot. Tom Townsend:
The whole story revolves around, what the immorality of a group of young people putting on a play. Audrey Rouget:
In the context of the novel it makes perfect sense. Tom Townsend:
But the context of the novel, and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote is near ridiculous from today's perspective. Audrey Rouget:
Has it ever occurred to you that today, looked at from Jane Austen's perspective would look even worse?
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By Tolstoy War and Peace
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and by Jane Austen Persuasion and Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park You've got to be kidding
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No But it's a notoriously bad book
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Even Lionel Trilling one of her greatest admirers thought that
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Well if Lionel Trilling thought that he's an idiot
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Scoffs The whole story revolves around what
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the immorality of a group of young people putting on a play
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In the context of the novel it makes perfect sense
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But the context of the novel and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote
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is near ridiculous from today's perspective
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Has it ever occurred to you that today looked at from Jane Austen's perspective
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would look even worse
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Movie Summary
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
