Youtuber Farm to Taber has a fascinating video about how Jane Austen explains how the issues of rural America are really issues of not particularly competent landed gentry, and not corporate agriculture.
I had to read Pride and Prejudice in high school, and I hated every page.
I had little interest in the topic, which at the time I saw as little more than a Regency romance.
She makes a compelling case that the novel is a trenchant critique of the society of the time which can be applied to rural areas today.
I am now thinking that I may have to reread that book 46 years after I nearly threw it out the window.
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