The Cult of Pride and Prejudice and its Author

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1 The Cult of Pride and Prejudice and its Author
10 박재효 10 이승혁

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3 CULT Oxford dictionary
The meaning of ‘cult’ as ‘a rela-tively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by other as strange or sinister’

4 CHICK - LIT 젊은 여자들이 흥미를 느끼는 문학 CHICK(젊은 여성을 뜻하는 비속어) + Literature

5 Jane Austen in the Men’s club
Austen was the idol of educated, tasteful men, akin to one of her own heroines for her worshipping male hero-readers; the often described her and her characters as living people. - G. K. Chesterton Henry James traced Austen’s popularity to her ‘first slightly ponderous amoroso’

6 Jane Austen in the Men’s club
Thomas Babington Macaulay he also includes himself among those who had ‘ lost our hearts to her’ Prime Minster Winston Churchill's Austen fulfilled a different nationalist fantasy Churchill emphasises that novel's escapist, rather than realist or humorist, potential.

7 Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone! 난 오만과 편견을 읽을 때마다 그녀의 무덤을 파서 그 정강이뼈로 그녀의 두개골을 때리고 싶어! Mark Twain

8 Virginia woolf 버지니아 울프는 제인 오스틴을 제일 뛰어난 여류작가라고 평
그 이유가 여성이 탄압받는 시대에 여성으로서 품을 만한 '분노'와 '적개심'을 드러내지 않고, 순수한 감성으로 문학작품을 빚어 냈다는것 그러나 냉소적인 시각으로 바라본 경향이 있다. Virginia woolf

9 Everywhere, everyone’s Austen

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12 Everywhere, everyone’s Austen

13 Thank you