Attention Janeites: What Jane Saw Is Pretty Amazing

This website reconstructs an important art exhibit at the British Institution in London that Jane Austen is said to have visited in 1813. In a letter to her sister Cassandra, Austen wrote that she was looking for the portraits of Mrs. Darcy and Mrs. Bingley. She said she found the latter and still needed to find the former. Each painting comes with a brief rundown on its significance in Austen studies, as well as pertinent quotes from classic Austen works, […]

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Jane Austen’s Game Theory

There are always different ways to look at literature, and one great example of that is the new book by economist Michael Chwe, Jane Austen, Game Theorist. “Austen’s understanding of human behavior is strikingly game theoretic,” Chwe says in the video below, turning the beloved author into a proto-game theorist, and also smartly dropping a reference to the Austen-influenced 1995 film masterpiece Clueless.

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