Florida Department of Education includes Jane Austen novel in 'American Pride' recs
July is a month for patriotic celebration, particularly during “Freedom Summer.”
But the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) is stretching that just a bit with its book recommendations rolled out this week, with one recycled recommendation serving as a callback to colonialism.
FDOE announced this week that among the recommended offerings is Jane Austen’s classic “Pride and Prejudice” from 1813, published some decades after the United States achieved freedom from British tyranny.
Students between grades 9 and 12 are recommended this volume, which tells a decidedly un-American story of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet’s courtship with the aristocratic Fitzwilliam Darcy, which is backdropped by...
