Men and Women in Jane Austen's Fiction

In this clip from the PBS retrospective on Jane Austen's novels, Rebecca Easton, Executive Producer of Masterpiece Theater, discusses gender roles in Austen's fiction. She argues that Austen, despite writing in the late 18th century, had a "modern" view of women and that her male characters were defined by specific moral and emotional traits. The interview is interspersed with scenes from the new filmed versions of Austen's novels.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Fiction
• literature
• interview
• Jane
• Austen
• gender
• courtship
• romanticism
• characters
• novels
• PBS
• film
• marriage

[AmazonNicola]

Austen is my Fave Authoress. She is the best on how we women (I am not saying all women) do not really want the rogue but the hero and in the end it is not the rogue who gets the girl but the hero as they put and I love that. I think that at least all women think that way. She was an an wonderful women who was be on her time and she was a more modern women now instead of then. She is the best and I love her.

[HarEPotrGrl]

Love Austen!!! I also love the way she explains the strange way Austen fits into modern day!