I hope this kind of thing is OK to post..

I have to give a presentation to my A2 Eng Lit class on the theme of love and marriage in Sense and Sensibility, and I'm totally lost! I mean I picked the book cause I thought it would be easy.
I need to choose an extract (no more that 2-3 pages) to hand out to the class and then make and present a powerpoint.
I'm having trouble finding a suitable extract to pick out that really sums it all up (baring in mind I do have 40 pages still to read). I'm also not really sure what to say in my presentation.
Can anyone help? I'm not asking you to do my presentation obviously, just kinda point me in the right direction...
Thanks so much!

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We're having our Regency Stereotype theme right now over at janeausten_rate.

Since you are all quite poetry-savvy, I was wondering if you could help me.

I am desperately, DESPERATELY searching for a Victorian era poem about power/control/dethronement/rulers/leader/etc ... similar to Percy Shelley's Romantic poem, "Ozymandias".

I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find one.

Thanks in advance ;)

Hi, I just joined this community and I figured I'd pop in to say hello. My favorite book is Villette, and I'm a bit of a rabid Charlotte Bronte fan, but I'm looking to expand my readership and I was hoping for any recommendations. I've got my eye on more Dickens (I've only read Hard Times) or Thomas Hardy. Any thoughts within that group, or any of your favorites you'd like to recommend would be much appreciated. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to spending inhuman amounts of time in this community.

Hi -- I just joined this community, hoping to reawaken the parts of my brain touched most by the Shelleys, Coleridge and Blake. I'm most interested in the Romantic poets but I have no small fondness for the Brontes and others.

I am taking a Jane Austen seminar this semester, and we just finished reading Mansfield Park. Everyone in the class couldn't agree on one point, and I was wondering what you all thought.

Do you think that Henry Crawford was really in love with Fanny?

For my part, I think it was more of an infatuation rather than actual love. However, classmates would be quick to point out how much attention Henry paid to detail, especially with this one passage when Henry is talking to his sister of his time with Fanny: "her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back." Henry also went out of his way to be kind to her when dealing with her family, when he must have known she was mortified by the prospect of him dining with the Price's in Portsmouth. His kindness in general, would seem to suggest--especially since it's such an improvement on his character from the beginning--that he is really, truly, trying to improve himself so he can be acceptable in Fanny's eyes. Then, of course, there is this passage: "We may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret: vexation that must rise sometimes to self-reproach, and regret to wretchedness, in having so requited hospitality, so injured family peace, so forfeited his best, most estimable, and endeared acquaintance, and so lost the woman whom he had rationally as well as passionately loved."

Now I've almost convinced myself. ^_^

But! I just cannot bring myself to believe that it was more than an infatuation because of what he does with Maria. Frankly, I think whether or not one believes Henry was in love with Fanny all comes down to what one defines as love. I think of love as a selfless state, one in which a person is willing to forgo actions that, while it may give pleasure to him, would certainly bring a great deal of pain to his significant other. What Henry did was purely self-motivated, and he must have known that Fanny would not only find out, but when she did find out, all correspondence between them must be at an end. This is why I think he was infatuated with her, and perhaps loved her as well as a man like Henry Crawford could, but it was not real, pure love. I also like to make a comparison between Henry and Mr. Darcy--both of them help out their ladies' families in significant ways; Darcy takes pains to hide it because he doesn't want Elizabeth or her family to feel in debt to him in any way, while Crawford announces it to the world. I believe he does this because it makes him look like a good person, and he cannot resist a moment to strut before everyone.

What does everyone else think?

I am so glad that I found this community!

I'm trying to decide on the author I want to work with for my thesis, and I think that I've narrowed it down to either Blake or Keats. So, my question is: do any of you lovely people have any suggestions for some comprehensive books on Blake or Keats that have great annotations? I'm looking for books that not only contain the poetry, but also any letters or--in the case of Blake--engravings.

I'm going to pick the brains of a couple of my professors as well, but I wanted to get suggestions from all over.

Also, while I'm making a post, I thought I'd mention the upcoming JASNA conference in Portland, OR: http://jasna.org/agms/portland/index.html

Will I see any of you there?

serialsensation  is a follow-up to dracula1897 , the real-time reading of Dracula that elettaria  and I did a few years ago: Victorian sensation novels, posted in twice-weekly instalments. We're starting with Ellen Wood's 1861 novel East Lynne, a tale of drama, disguises, scandal, shame, implausible plot twists and nail-biting cliffhangers. Please come and join us if you're interested in enjoying these excellent novels in the serialised form in which they were designed to be read. The reading begins on Friday the 20th of March.

Hi everyone. I just found this community and I hope it's okay if I ask for some help here! I'm writing a ten page paper on Ode To A Nightingale but I'm having trouble coming up with a theme or thesis to write on that appears in every stanza. Perhaps my understanding of the poem is not that great but I was wondering if maybe some of you could share some of your favorite themes of this poem or perhaps suggest a good topic for a paper this long? I'd really appreciate any advice or suggestions you could give me. Thank you so much! :)