Halperin has high praise for the novel, especially its shrewd character sketches, which he wishes Austen had had the chance to flesh out further.Īusten Biographer John Lauber calls Sanditon “a kingdom of folly”- a book whose style, content, characters, setting and theme all promised to be much different than Austen’s well known drawing room comedies. The novel involves a small town on the verge of becoming a health resort, Sanditon, and the emotional journey of its heroine Charlotte, who visits Sanditon as a guest and becomes involved with the foibles of its inhabitants.
He calls Sanditon, the name given to the fragmentary novel Jane Austen first called The Brothers, an “anti-romantic fragment.” Austen wrote it while dying, and the manuscript contains only about 25,000 words. Literature scholar John Halperin can tell you what it isn’t-romantic.
Nothing gets Jane Austen fans in aflutter like a new adaptation, and the announcement that the screenwriter behind the 1994 Pride and Prejudice will adapt Sanditon for ITV and PBS has created as much excitement as the arrival of a regiment of handsome officers in Meryton.
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