Jane Austen

Was Jane Austen Actually the Ultimate Anti-Romantic Novelist?

Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on How Austen’s Rushed Endings Undercut Her Reputation For Romance

 
By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey  April 29, 2024
Jane Austen

How American Critics Originated Jane Austen Scholarship

By Juliette Wells  November 6, 2023
Jane Austen

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
Jane Austen

Pride, Prejudice, and The Bachelor

By Chiara Dello Joio  September 8, 2023
Jane Austen

The Pleasure and Communion of Austen’s Country Dance

By Cornelia Powers  August 17, 2023
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: On Setting and Society in Pride and Prejuduce

By C.K. Chau  July 11, 2023
Jane Austen

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

By Sayantani DasGupta  June 16, 2023
Jane Austen

Martin Amis on the Genius of Jane Austen (and What the Adaptations Get Wrong)

By Martin Amis  May 22, 2023
Jane Austen

How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

By Anna Beer  November 18, 2022
Jane Austen

What Would a Modern-Day Jane Austen Novel Look Like?

By Taylor Hahn  June 7, 2022
Jane Austen

“In Moderation and Without Worry.” On Jane Austen’s Use of Food As Character

By Robert Tuesday Anderson  March 31, 2022
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Just How Much is Jane Austen a Precursor to Bridgerton?

By Robert Morrison  March 17, 2022
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Reading Myself Into, and Beyond, Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Pek  February 22, 2022
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How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice

By Harold Bloom  December 23, 2021
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How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

By Julienne Gehrer   July 26, 2021
Jane Austen

Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
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Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

By Joshua Raff  May 13, 2021
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On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn’t Write

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales  April 8, 2021
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Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
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On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

By Rachel Cohen  July 24, 2020
Jane Austen

Karen Tei Yamashita is a Full-Fledged Jane Austenite Now

By Karen Tei Yamashita  May 13, 2020
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Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

By Gill Hornby  May 1, 2020
Jane Austen

Can We Talk About How Austen’s Characters Tend to Blur Together?

By Emily Hodgson Anderson  March 18, 2020
Jane Austen

The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known

By Janine Barchas  January 15, 2020
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Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen

By Hilary Davidson  December 10, 2019
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