Comments on: Evelina, or, the history of a young lady’s entrance into appreciationism http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/11/16/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-appreciationism/ or, writing about books Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nicole http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/11/16/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-appreciationism/comment-page-1/#comment-4700 nicole Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:44:48 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2066#comment-4700 Well, you're not going to get a cold-hearted run at Austen this week, but I <em>have</em> been thinking about reading one of the novels I haven't read and seeing how it strikes me nowadays. I think probably <em>Sense and Sensibility</em> sometime in the near-distant future. Also, I was expecting to get some flak for complaining about the letters today, but who knows, maybe I won't. You're right; it's really not an epistolary novel. Well, you’re not going to get a cold-hearted run at Austen this week, but I have been thinking about reading one of the novels I haven’t read and seeing how it strikes me nowadays. I think probably Sense and Sensibility sometime in the near-distant future.

Also, I was expecting to get some flak for complaining about the letters today, but who knows, maybe I won’t. You’re right; it’s really not an epistolary novel.

]]> By: Amateur Reader http://www.bibliographing.com/2009/11/16/evelina-or-the-history-of-a-young-ladys-entrance-into-appreciationism/comment-page-1/#comment-4691 Amateur Reader Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:33:09 +0000 http://www.bibliographing.com/?p=2066#comment-4691 First, how nice that there's someone out there in litblogland who knows what I'm talking about. So appreciated. Second, I'm probably misusing the term, but this sort of reading against the grain seems productive to me. I don't know how much fun it is for you! But it makes me selfishly look forward to a really cold-hearted run at Austen. I think I'd learn something. Third, like <i>The Ayrshire Legatees</i>, this is a real London novel. Odd how rare that once was. Or maybe there were lots of them, but they aren't canonical, I don't know. Fourth, you seem to have discovered the terrible secret of this classic epistolary novel - it's not really an epistolary novel! First, how nice that there’s someone out there in litblogland who knows what I’m talking about. So appreciated.

Second, I’m probably misusing the term, but this sort of reading against the grain seems productive to me. I don’t know how much fun it is for you! But it makes me selfishly look forward to a really cold-hearted run at Austen. I think I’d learn something.

Third, like The Ayrshire Legatees, this is a real London novel. Odd how rare that once was. Or maybe there were lots of them, but they aren’t canonical, I don’t know.

Fourth, you seem to have discovered the terrible secret of this classic epistolary novel – it’s not really an epistolary novel!

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