Costume drama
Sir: Could I remind Michael Buhagiar (23 July) that the great conflict in Jane Austen’s greatest novel is between the Crawfords and Fanny Price: that is, between the values of style and “excitement”, against the values of fidelity and precision. I suppose it’s possible to take “civilisation” to be “a man in possession of a fortune in search of a wife”, and there’s plenty of “healthy upstanding manliness” in Jane Austen.
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