Pride and Prejudice Part 1: Crash Course Literature #411

In which a series about literature, which is wanting of an episode on Jane Austen, gets the first of two episodes. It's Pride and Prejudice, everybody! John Green talks about Pride and Prejudice...

==========
Hi I’m John Green, this is Crash Course Literature and it is a truth universally acknowledgedthat a video series about world literature must be in want of a Jane Austen episode./ So here it is.Today, we’ll be discussing Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s Regency-era novel of life, libertyand bonnets.The book was first published in 1813, it’s a social satire about a family with five daughtersand quite a lot of economic anxiety.And the novel’s characters and themes have remained relevant for centuries now--whichis why there are SO.MANY. adaptations of it, from the Keira Knightly movie to an Emmy winning web series co-createdby my brother./ Today, we’ll talk about the social and historicalcontext in which the book was written, the style that Jane Austen helped ...