HuffPost Arts & Books
"Look, I get it. It’s tough to update Jane Austen’s novels for the present day. We still read them, and long to retell them, because they feel so deeply universal; their themes of love, family, duty, judgment and prejudice resonate across the centuries.
They are also, however, very much novels of their time: They satirize the specific, rigid social dynamics and restrictions of Austen’s era. Plots that hinge on sexist inheritance laws and archaic courtship codes simply don’t translate to an age when inheritance laws are generally gender-neutral, women don’t need a dowry to get married or support themselves, and a man breaking a loveless engagement isn’t a sign of his caddishness." (Read more here)
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