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May. 17th, 2017 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotIt's hot today - over 80 - so I tried putting my hair into a high ponytail. It's grown out to be just long enough, but it's also short enough not to weigh my head down or break/pull out the hair toward the front. Very nice! It looks cute.
As a palate cleanser after Longbourn, I'm now reading Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Economy in Georgian England. I'm enjoying it, but it has to be said that it's much longer than it needs to be: the basic theory is that the books are didactic novels meant to show the perils of bad oikonomia (stewardship, household discipline, etc.) and how to achieve good oikonomia, a complementary marriage, and Anglican-style salvation. Clergy marriages are meant to be between people who have a rational mindset tempered with feeling, because of their position in the community and straitened lifestyle, while someone who governs an estate should be and marry a person who has more feeling held in check by reason since they're more of the world. The author argues that even Mr. Collins/Charlotte is supposed to be seen as an example of good oikonomia even though Elizabeth (as a feeling person instead of a reason person) doesn't get it.
As a palate cleanser after Longbourn, I'm now reading Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Economy in Georgian England. I'm enjoying it, but it has to be said that it's much longer than it needs to be: the basic theory is that the books are didactic novels meant to show the perils of bad oikonomia (stewardship, household discipline, etc.) and how to achieve good oikonomia, a complementary marriage, and Anglican-style salvation. Clergy marriages are meant to be between people who have a rational mindset tempered with feeling, because of their position in the community and straitened lifestyle, while someone who governs an estate should be and marry a person who has more feeling held in check by reason since they're more of the world. The author argues that even Mr. Collins/Charlotte is supposed to be seen as an example of good oikonomia even though Elizabeth (as a feeling person instead of a reason person) doesn't get it.
