Recently added articles from Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal:
In memoriam: Barry Roth: 1942-2008.(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Barry Roth, indefatigable compiler of Jane Austen studies and Professor of English at Ohio University, died on August 17, 2008, as a result of a brain tumor. Barry was among the members of the Jane Austen Society whom Joan Austen-Leigh and J. David Grey contacted in 1979 at the founding of ...
Message from the president.(Conference notes)
Jan 01, 2008; Huff, Marsha ... THE THEME OF THE CHICAGO AGM--"Austen's Legacy: Life, Love, & Laughter"--brought together lectures and panels exploring Jane Austen's influence in literature and the arts and in forms of communication unimagined during her lifetime. The essays in this volume of Persuasions and in ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; Ford, Susan Allen ... I Jane Austen of the Parish of Chawton do by this my last will & Testament give and bequeath to nay dearest Sister Cassandra Elizth everything of which I may die possessed, or which may be hereafter due to me, subject to the payment of my Funeral Expences, & to a Legacy of 50 [pounds ...
A name to conjure with.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Johnson, Claudia L. ... IT IS THE CUSTOM--though not without exceptions--to organize annual meetings of JASNA around specific works of Jane Austen--Vancouver's Emma, Milwaukee's Letters, Tucson's Mansfield Park. At times, of course, themes have been chosen instead, as in Philadelphia's upcoming "Brothers and ...
Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, and the academy.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Harris, Jocelyn ... ALTHOUGH JANE AUSTEN'S LEGACY is now more powerful and influential than ever before, I believe that her life, our love, and her laughter actually get her into trouble. So how does knowledge of an author's life affect the reading of her works? How does loving her affect her academic ...
Victorians versus Victorians: understanding "dear Aunt Jane".(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Ray, Joan Klingel ... WHEN WE CONTEMPLATE Victorian perceptions about Jane Austen, most of us think of the sentimental image of "dear Aunt Jane" popularized by the first sentence of the first chapter of James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt (1871): "More than half a century has passed away since I, the ...
Mrs. Gaskell's North and South: Austen's early legacy.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(JElizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Barchas, Janine ... AN ACCOUNT OF JANE AUSTEN'S earliest literary legacy--one that would track the influence she exerted upon writers nearest to her own time--might productively consider the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Mrs. Gaskell's North and South (1854-55) has all the makings of a deftly ...
Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks: a Victorian Emma.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Robinson, Amy J. ... FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Emma (1816), Margaret Oliphant published Miss Marjoribanks (1866), whose heroine, as critics have noted, is a descendant of Emma Woodhouse. In 1969, Q. D. Leavis observed that Lucilla Marjoribanks is a "triumphant intermediary" between Jane Austen's ...
Family and scholarly annotations in Lord Brabourne's Letters: adventures of an amateur academic.(AGM 2008: Chicago)
Jan 01, 2008; Lank, Edith ... IN NOVEMBER 1999, I buy a copy of Lord Brabourne's 1884 edition of previously unpublished Letters of Jane Austen. Don't really look at it. Shelve the two volumes next to Chapman's edition of the Letters, Deirdre Le Faye's more complete recent one, Jo Modert's facsimile collection, Penelope ...
"Moral seriousness with comic drama": Austen's legacy of life, love, and laughter to Carol Shields.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Stovel, Nora Foster ... THERE CAN HARDLY BE A WOMAN NOVELIST who has not been influenced by Jane Austen's legacy of life, love, and laughter, because Austen domesticated the novel and feminized it. While Sir Walter Scott was master of what he described as the "Big Bow-wow" novel, a macrocosmic fiction reflecting ...
Shades of Austen in Ian McEwan's Atonement.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Wells, Juliette ... "Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English: that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, ...
The Pemberley effect: Austen's legacy to the historic house industry.(AGM 2008: Chicago)(Jane Austen)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Parry, Sarah ... JANE AUSTEN'S LEGACY has been an important element in the absorption of many historic houses into popular culture in recent years. Austen now has a connection to many historic houses simply because an adaptation of one of her novels has been filmed at a particular property rather than ...
The history of Jane Austen's writing desk.(Miscellany)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Welland, Freydis Jane ... THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY of the start of Jane Austen's creative literary life in Chawton Cottage is July 2009, and October 2009 is the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of JASNA and the tenth anniversary of Jane Austen's writing desk being placed in the care of The British Library ...
Comic fantasy in Jane Austen's Juvenilia: female roguery and the charms of narcissism.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Monteiro, Belisa ... CRITICAL STUDIES OF THE Juvenilia tend to focus on Austen's exuberant, brilliant parody of the sentimental heroine, which is most notable in "Love and Freindship." (1) There Austen memorably goes to the extreme in exposing Laura, the ostensible heroine of sensibility, as an amoral egotist ...
Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer: the path to female self-determination in Austen's Sense and Sensibility.(Miscellany)(Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Anderson, Kathleen ... BEGINNING WITH THE TITLE OF Sense and Sensibility, Austen makes readers aware of the two archetypes to be explored. Austen's female bildungsroman is more nuanced than the title suggests at first glance, however, and readers themselves journey to deeper enlightenment as her heroines do. The ...
Derbyshires corresponding: Elizabeth Bennet and the Austen tour of 1833.(Miscellany)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; McDonald, Kelly M. ... AT THE END OF Pride and Prejudice, readers learn that Darcy and Elizabeth "were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them" (388). The Gardiners may have planned an extensive Lake District trip, ...
Locke, Richardson, and Austen: or, how to become a gentleman.(Miscellany)(John Locke, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Bour, Isabelle ... THIS ESSAY BRINGS TOGETHER John Locke, Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen, in relation to the fashioning of the gentleman in the long eighteenth century. In a striking parallel, at a late point in the plots of both Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740-41) and Jane Austen's ...
Mansfield Park reconsidered: pheasants, game laws, and the hidden critique of slavery.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Kelly, Helena ... THE TITLE Mansfield Park, with its forthright, even over-deterministic reminder of Lord Mansfield, the man who as Lord Chief Justice presided over some of the most famous slavery cases to come before the English courts, appears to urge the reader towards a contextualization that is never ...
Emma and Twelfth Night.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Rand, Thomas ... "'The course of true love never did run smooth'--A Hartfield edition of Shakespeare would have a long note on that passage." (Emma 75) EMMA'S REMARK HAS LED to a good deal of illuminating analysis of the parallels between Emma and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Stuart Tave writes ...
Jane Austen's Englishness: Emma as national tale.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; Southam, Brian C. ... Except in America, she does not travel. She is too soaked in Englishness and English literature to be caught--a most malign histrionic, especially when quiet. --V. S. PRITCHETT OF ALL NOVELISTS, Jane Austen is the Anglocentric, narrowly and specifically concerned not ...
