There seems to be nothing to do except return home after Lydia goes missing. But sometimes, as Lizzie is about to discover, family can be cold comfort in a crisis.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chpt. 47 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Uhhhh, so who was going to remind us that Mr. Collins truly blows? Must run in the family…looking straight at you Mr. Bennet.
After the Bennett receive a really mean letter from their current cousin/former paramour, their dear father returns home to say he’s taking responsibility for his family. Papa then goes on to earn that letter and top spot as Bad Dad on the Whoa!mance bookshelf. 
We also talk about conservative faced men.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chpt. 48 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Well, well, well. Guess who got discovered. Mmhm. And guess who continues to be overly optimistic? You got it. And guess who is kind of a classist jerk to their domestic workers? BINGO. You know what, maybe just sit this chapter out. You already know what's up.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chpt. 49 - Public Access Read-a-Long

In Chapter 50, Jane Austen creaks open a window in Mr. Bennet's pysche. And it sends your readers into a discussion of family, community, growing, and - of course - love. It also recalls Jane Eyre.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chpt. 50 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Knock knock! Who's there? A whole ass wife in the form of Lydia, of course. 
In chapter 51 Lydia and Wickham return to make everything awkward over the course of a short ten days. Just enough time for Lydia to drop a bombshell at the very end of the chapter.
Does the text like Lydia, or is it just us giggling and kicking our feet in the air every time she gets the spotlight?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chpt. 51 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Elizabeth and Darcy are finally in a room together at another party and then...
Well and then Morgan threatens to quit the project.
Tune in to find out why!

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chapter 54 - Public Access Read-a-Long

In chapter 55 Bingley stops by Longbourne, again. And again. And again. What is he UP to?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chapter 55 - Public Access Read-a-long

Knock knock! Who's there? Why! It is Catherine De Burgh! Here to rip Lizzie a new one while Jane and Bingley canoodle in the shrubbery. The worst part is? No one even visits the hermitage. That was here the whole time????
A split decision on this chapter folks, with a scathing rating of three out of five stars from one of our readers. Metadrama and metaconflict abounds.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chapter 56 - Public Access Read-a-Long

The first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved Gavin and Stacey star. 

 Candice Marie in Nuts in May. Beverly in Abigail’s Party. Mrs Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Betty in Fat Friends. Sue in Here We Go and Pamela in Gavin & Stacey – we can all name a beloved, iconic character brought to life by the magnificent Alison Steadman.

Growing up in post-war, working-class Liverpool, the young Alison – ever the entertainer – would address the world from the stage of her bedroom window, until she got a taste for performing in front of an actual audience at her progressive 1960s drama school. By the time she left, her mind was made up: she was going to be an actress! If only she could conquer the onstage giggling …

Always pushing boundaries – reclining naked on a sofa in her first role, embracing groundbreaking female characters from day one – Alison has deservedly found acclaim and recognition, succeeding in her TV and theatre career while juggling family life – a difficult feat for any working mother, but particularly for an actress in the twentieth century.

From the nervy Mrs Bennet to the robo-dancing Pam-el-aah, Alison has proved herself again and again to be a comedy genius. Here, with her distinctive warmth and humour, she vividly recalls all the must-read moments of a life spent in and out of character.

Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and everything in between, By Alison Steadman, Read by Alison Steadman

What webs we weave, indeed! This episode we attempt to unknot that cross-over of the century - the NINETEENTH century that is - PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS by JOHN KESSEL.
Mary Bennet decides to take one last crack at life before resigning herself to spinsterhood and two people wind up dead. That's what happens when you pin your hopes to the saddest Swiss nerd at the ball. Especially when they have the kind of baggage that is super tall, speaks at least three languages, has committed murder in the name of loneliness, and is technically their child.
Do the major differences of "Frankenstein" and "Pride and Prejudice" boil down to imagination vs. domesticity? Where is the fascination of sex to be found without love and affection? What can be made of men talking about women talking about men? 
Trigger warnings - we talk about anatomy, sterilization, murder, and miscarriages in this episode.

180: Actually, it's Frankenstein's Incel - "Pride and Prometheus" by John Kessel

Pride and Prejudice gets PENULTIMATE! 
In this, the second to last chapter of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, there are lots of sweet nothings and victory laps to be had. And the conversation begins circling the drain that leads to...romance novels?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chapter 60 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Here it is, the last chapter. The bow tie. The final thoughts. The Darcy. The Rochester. The end.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Chapter 61 - Public Access Read-a-Long

Eng 325 Pod - 4_6_25, 8.59 PM

Eng 325 Pod Final

In today's episode of my personal podcast, we discuss book-to-movie adaptations and how to do a bad job at them. More specifically, we trash-talk 13 Reasons Why and praise Pride and Prejudice 2005.

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Myself Again

Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel and envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that supposedly solidifies in the eighteenth century. Here, Washington discusses a politics built on plurality and possibility with Marquis Bey, Christopher Breu, and Alison Sperling.



Chris Washington is associate professor of English at Francis Marion University. He is author of Nonbinary Jane Austen and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.

Marquis Bey is professor of black studies and gender and sexuality and critical theory at Northwestern University. Bey is author of several books including Cistem Failure, Black Trans Feminism, and The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender.

Christopher Breu is author of several books including In Defense of Sex, Insistence of the Material, Hard-Boiled Masculinities, and coeditor of Noir Affect. Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University. 

Alison Sperling is assistant professor of literature, media, and culture at Florida State University, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin.



REFERENCES:
Derrida’s Of Grammatology
Foucault
Trans Femme Futures / Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift
The Anthropocene Unconscious / Mark Bould; Alison Sperling review in Los Angeles Review of Books
The Matrix film
Black on Both Sides / C. Riley Snorton
Fred Moten
Judith Butler
We Are All Nonbinary (essay) / Kadji Amin
Edward Said
Histories of the Transgender Child / Jules Gill-Peterson
S. Pearl Brilmyer / “The Ontology of the Couple” issue of GLQ
A Mercy / Toni Morrison
Sojourner Truth



Nonbinary Jane Austen is available in the Forerunners series from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available at manifold.umn.edu. Thank you for listening.



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