AustenBlog let us know that the Bravo TV reality show, “Work of Art,” recently featured the contestants, who are artists, competing to design a cover for a Penguin Classics novel. Apparently they had a choice of several novels, and two of the contestants chose to illustrate Pride and Prejudice. The whole episode is not available for viewing online, but AustenBlog wrote, “The Cluebat needed to be wielded many, many times. . . . one of the artists who has P&P calls Darcy DARBY and mispells Austen as Austin.” The other spells the title backwards. All righty then!
There is a gallery of the finished cover art, which shows both P&P covers. The one with the misspelled name is a lovely piece, but a backless gown? A top hat? Have we fallen through the rabbit hole into Austen Bizarro World? There also is a clip of the backwards artist, Judith, who considered herself (like a certain tall, proud gentleman) rather above her company. She also defends her cover on the show blog, and makes what we have to admit is a good point:
The whole Jane-Austen-wrote-backwards story: (do you know that one yet?) OY, ok: AFTER I GOT SENT HOME I read a New York Times article that Austen actually wrote backwards in letters to her niece.
Well, yes. But the niece was like eight years old. Were you making a cover for eight-year-olds?
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7.13.2010
2.10.2010
Penguin Classics Podcasts
"Penguin Classics On Air" has new podcasts you might enjoy:
This is from Penguin Classics Press Release:
"In the first, South African author Sheila Kohler speaks with Editorial Director Elda Rotor on the writing of her new book, the critically acclaimed Becoming Jane Eyre. Sheila discusses where she found her inspiration for the title, and what Charlotte Bronte's story means to her. Later in the episode, scholar Juliette Wells discusses the work of the Bronte sisters how they forever changed the way women wrote."
To hear this podcast, click on the link here .
"In the next episode, Stephen Morrison speaks on two of England's most well-known women novelists, Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. With all the new adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Return to Cranford (starring Judi Dench) now airing on PBS Masterpiece Theater, we wanted to explore with experts the importance of each author's work, what their works can tell us about the life of women in Britain's 18th Century, and why their stories still resonate today. Stephen speaks with Sue Birtwistle, the producer of Return to Cranford, as well as the much loved adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that starred Colin Firth and recruited Mr. Darcy fans everywhere. Stephen also speaks with Tanya Agathocleous, an Assistant Professor of English literature at Hunter College, specializing in 19th and 20th Century British Literature & Culture."
To hear this podcast, click on the link here.
This is from Penguin Classics Press Release:
"In the first, South African author Sheila Kohler speaks with Editorial Director Elda Rotor on the writing of her new book, the critically acclaimed Becoming Jane Eyre. Sheila discusses where she found her inspiration for the title, and what Charlotte Bronte's story means to her. Later in the episode, scholar Juliette Wells discusses the work of the Bronte sisters how they forever changed the way women wrote."
To hear this podcast, click on the link here .
"In the next episode, Stephen Morrison speaks on two of England's most well-known women novelists, Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. With all the new adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Return to Cranford (starring Judi Dench) now airing on PBS Masterpiece Theater, we wanted to explore with experts the importance of each author's work, what their works can tell us about the life of women in Britain's 18th Century, and why their stories still resonate today. Stephen speaks with Sue Birtwistle, the producer of Return to Cranford, as well as the much loved adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that starred Colin Firth and recruited Mr. Darcy fans everywhere. Stephen also speaks with Tanya Agathocleous, an Assistant Professor of English literature at Hunter College, specializing in 19th and 20th Century British Literature & Culture."
To hear this podcast, click on the link here.
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