[chajin]

I one of the colleges I taught for, for a number of years the students were required to read Persuasion in the humanities class. I took a different tack than most, digging into the Christian aspects of the book, and how Austen was an Anglican who had some sympathies with the evangelicals of her day. I was just enough under the radar that I got away with it, though the course later was redesigned without the book assignment, and I was switched over to teaching their critical thinking course anyway. There is nothing underlying Austen's works that goes against conservative or Biblical principles.

[georgiegirl]

There is nothing underlying Austen's works that goes against conservative or Biblical principles.

Absolutely correct. Austen's "proverbs" are every bit as wise as Shakespeare's or Dicken's. One of my favorites is "Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility..." (Darcy from P & P)

[Shadow44]

Because that was the society’s norms at the time.

Only fringe loonies like Mary Wollstonecraft were recognizably “modern”.

It’s why feminists are now turning on writers like Austen, because they don’t fit their arbitrary 21st Century Postmodernist values and ignorantly don’t even appreciate things like historical context.