Interview with Paula Marantz Cohen, Author of Jane Austen in Boca
(St. Martin's)
Albemarle Magazine • December 2002/January 2003
by Bella Stander |
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Ever since she was six years old, Paula Marantz Cohen wanted to be a writer. "I was always writing poetry and short stories and sending them to women's magazines," the Drexel University humanities professor says from her home in Moorestown, N.J. But her work was never accepted, "so I went to grad school and became a literary critic." Cohen, whose several works include Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth (Oxford Univ. Press), loves teaching and writing academic nonfiction.
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Pride and Prada Bags: Comedy of Manners In the Land of Condos
Author Cohen Sees Austen-esque Behavior in South Florida
The Jewish Forward
by Lisa Keys |
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Ten years ago, Paula Marantz Cohen, a professor of humanities at Drexel University in Philadelphia, joined what has become for many an annual pilgrimage: a winter-break visit to the in-laws in the upscale, largely Jewish retiree communities of Boca Raton.
But while her compatriots came "back North" with sunburns, grapefruits and faux Prada bags, Cohen returned with something more: an idea for a novel. "Jane Austen, in her novels, used three or four families, set in a country village," Cohen told the Forward. "In a sense, there's that same sort of homogeneity in Boca. I was struck by how much texture there was to that life, how lively the people were, how much they had to talk about, how there were even romantic episodes."
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WHYY Interview |
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When the link below opens, type "Paula Marantz Cohen" into the search function. A new page will appear, click on the "91FM - Program Archive" link. Another new apge will appear, scroll down to 1/25/03 and click "Listen."
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Interview in ASK (publication of the College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University)
by Eamon R. McIvor |
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Paula Marantz Cohen, Professor of Literature, is among the star players in Drexel University’s English Department. She’s the author of six books on a wide range of topics, including silent film and Victorian literature. Her credentials are impressive, but perhaps more importantly, she’s a warm, amiable person who always elicits a strong, positive reaction from her students. It’s obvious to anyone who’s ever taken one of her classes that she loves teaching. Her most recent book is Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death, and the SAT’s.
ASK: Where did the inspiration for this book come from?
Cohen: From my own experience as the mother and teacher of college-age kids--and from a desire to write another satire of middle-class life.
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