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Although the Janeiteism of this period was actually more productive than he acknowledges — giving us, for one thing, Chapman's 1923 edition of Austen's novel, the first scholarly edition of any British novelist - Harding dismisses Janeites as weakling escapists who recur to the idyllic figure of Jane as a refuge when the contemporary world grew too much for them.

‘You’ve got a face like the back end of a bus,’ he spat, his eyes raw and burning. Then he grinned, his yellow-stained teeth spreading across his mush …

Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be Monsters.”