tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post4927434848779745959..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: EMMA, JANE AUSTEN AND THE EROTIC ALLURE OF RESERVEbillierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-49237912402862865302012-10-23T07:21:31.828-07:002012-10-23T07:21:31.828-07:00I guess it is different strokes for different folk...I guess it is different strokes for different folks Fulani. And it is a long post -- I'd been thinking for a while about how to work Erotica into Jane Austen's stuff -- I came up with the idea of "erotic reserve" from something I read on the web. And it does seem to fit, I hope it does anyway! I think that my favourite period would be the Victorians. I think that current Erotica owes a lot to them. All that restraint and underlying sexual tension!billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-80032713509611663542012-10-19T18:30:34.987-07:002012-10-19T18:30:34.987-07:00Well, that was a long post. I have to say I'm ...Well, that was a long post. I have to say I'm not greatly enthused by Austin's novels, just like I wasn't enthused by its precursors, such as 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa' - the early period of novel writing as 'instruction for women' I get intellectually but not emotionally. <br /><br />I guess I just get impatient with the novels, more by the language than by the dilemmas presented by the (very real) social constraints placed on people at that time. Though oddly enough, literature from earlier periods I often enjoy, just as I do literature from the later 1800s onwards - for some reason I find Jane Austen's period less engaging. Different strokes for different folks?<br /><br />Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.com