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Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser is the author and editor of seven books on literature by women and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and NEH Public Scholar. Her most recent book, The Making of Jane Austen (2017), was named a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book and received the Inside Higher Ed Reader’s Choice Award. She teaches English at Arizona State University.
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Sense or Sensibility… What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart
February 11, 2019  By Devoney Looser
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Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

It's Not, No Matter What Hallmark Does
December 17, 2018  By Devoney Looser
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Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

On the Appearance of a Literary Icon at the First Women's Marches
July 18, 2017  By Devoney Looser
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The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

74,000 words of raucous, handwritten amorality
March 4, 2016  By Devoney Looser
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Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

On the 200th Anniversary of a Classic, An Argument for Its Greatness
December 23, 2015  By Devoney Looser
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