Just read a fascinating article by Brian Brown at Humane Pursuits. Here’s the gist of his answer:<\/p>\n
“I think we like Jane Austen because we like stories with men in them. Do not misunderstand me. We don\u2019t watch a Jane Austen movie because Indiana Jones and Jason Bourne aren\u2019t men. But we face\u2014and have been facing for some time now\u2014an identity crisis with which those heroes are no help.”<\/p>\n
Take a look at “Why Men Like Jane Austen”<\/a> and let me know what you think about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just read a fascinating article by Brian Brown at Humane Pursuits. Here’s the gist of his answer: “I think we like Jane Austen because we like stories with men in them. Do not misunderstand me. We don\u2019t watch a Jane Austen movie because Indiana Jones and Jason Bourne aren\u2019t men. But we face\u2014and have been … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-literature","category-movie-adaptations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}