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Lizzie Bennet Diaries Modernizes Pride and Prejudice for the YouTube Generation

Shira Lazar | Posted 01.06.2013 | Books
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Shira Lazar

The stars of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries YouTube phenomenon -- Ashley Clements (Lizzie Bennet) and Daniel Vincent Gordh (William Darcy) -- join What's Trending to answer fan questions about the webcam adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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Jane Austen Weekly: Elizabeth Bennet's Brain Scan

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.11.2012 | Books
Read More: Jane Austen Novels, Cognitive Science, Jane Austen, Fmri, Mansfield Park, Brain Scan, Pride and Prejudice, Neuroscience, English Literature, Brain, Cni, Close-Reading, Elizabeth Bennet, Books News
Susan Celia Greenfield

In Pride and Prejudice, the reward for meticulous critical scrutiny is self-consciousness, intellectual expansion and moral growth. Long before the invention of fMRIs, Jane Austen knew that close reading was good for the brain... and for the soul.

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Are The Kardashians The Modern Day Bennets?

Hanna Flint | Posted 12.10.2012 | Home
Read More: TV Canada, Kendall Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Lydia Bennet, Jane Austen, UK Books, Celebrity, Elizabeth Bennet, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Pride and Prejudice, Khloe Kardashian, Home News
Hanna Flint

It's not too much of a stretch to consider the Kardashian clan as the modern day Bennet family, but for the sake of the youngest members let's hope it's not too late to rewrite their story.

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Easy Reader: In Death Comes to Pemberley P. D. James Takes on Jane Austen, Sort Of

David Finkle | Posted 02.19.2012 | Books
Read More: P. D. James, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet, Alfred A. Knopf, Death Comes to Pemberley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen, Adam Dalgliesh, Books News
David Finkle

Maybe in declaring my dissatisfaction with the 81-year-old James's newest work, I'm committing a not uncommon reviewer's sin: reviewing the book I think ought to have been written.

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