Pride and Prejudice

Chick lit: the new woman's fiction

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Ferriss' and Young's exploration of the chick lit phenomenon takes a look at issues, such as race, sexuality, class and gender to reveal the positive and negative reactions this genre has provoked.

Despite the historical evidence that Jane Austen was a devout Anglican, many readers have nonetheless contended that her Christian faith does not truly inform her fiction. Even those who do identify Christian themes in her works tend to argue that her early three novels, of whic…

The reality of Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice is socially constructed; their goals and actions become a typification of society's institutions and conventions. Examining Austen's pivotal characters, with a particular focus on Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals that each…