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Jane Austen has alt-right fans? Heavens to Darcy!
Some of them hail Austen's novels as blueprints for a white nationalist "ethno-state", others cite her in paeans to subservient wives
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, Mar 21, 2017 · 09:50 PM
New York
IT'S a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in want of attention could do worse than take possession of Jane Austen.
We've already had Austen and zombies, Austen and game theory, Austen and guinea pigs. Now, a scholar has offered another spit-take-inducing pairing: Jane Austen and the alt-right.
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