Bonnie’s Reviews > The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love > Status Update

I'm sorry, the antidote to the poisonous Darcy myth is the film, DIRTY DANCING???? THEE Dirty Dancing where a man in his late 20s seduces a teenaged girl? OKAY THEN.

This book is deeply unserious.

Comparing Adam Levine's 2022 setting scandal to Mr. Darcy is...a choice.

She's *upset* that Wickham was paid off to marry Lydia, and it's colored her view of P&P in a way that is harmful and reductive, in my opinion. And as unsavory a choice as marrying Wickham might be, it's not like Lydia had other, better options, particularly since she ran off with Wickham OF HER OWN ACCORD. Tess of the D'urbervilles, anyone?

Insulting The Monk is a red flag. Don't listen to her! Read it: it's hilarious. (A man so depraved that Satan rejects him? GOLD. Lisa Vanderpump weeps in envy)

I realize I'm gonna be THAT "Okay, Boomer" academic, but...misspelling Georgiana Darcy's name when you have a supposed expertise AND AN EDITOR is just sloppy.