Jane Austen broke the fourth wall.

She deploys distractions, decoys and asides that are wildly absurd, wickedly sarcastic and consciously subversive and inventive, challenging our ideas of story and belief.

Hello friends,

Our peaceful Austen-land community has quite nearly been wrecked and ravished in the last two days by the release of the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, Cosmo Jarvis as Frederick Wentworth, and Henry Golding as the dashing William Elliot. 

Division, dissent, disar…