Persuasion modernizes Jane Austen for a new generation — but does it lack sense and sensibility?

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Netflix's Persuasion has been criticized for modernizing a classic. So how does one adapt Jane Austen in 2022? CBC News spoke with writers and scholars — all superfans of the 19th-century novelist — who said maintaining the author's spirit onscreen goes far beyond setting or style.



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