Jane Austen (1775-1817)

A selective bibliography of 158 active links for Jane Austen, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Introductory | Austen's Novels General | Biographical Studies | Emma | Mansfield Park | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | Pride and Prejudice | Sense and Sensibility | Lady Susan | Austen's Language and Style | Themes | Reviews of Scholarship | Scholarly Journals | Bibliographical | Web sites


Introductory and Light Reading

A substantial introduction to Jane Austen by Dr. Robert Clark from the Literary Encyclopedia. On Emma; On Persuasion

Transcript of a PBS News Hour discussion on Jane Austen's books and films, with Elizabeth Farnsworth, Carol Shields, Cynthia Heimel, and Roger Rosenblatt

A short, introductory biography of Jane Austen from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

About the problem of liking the wimpy heroine Fanny Price in Mansfield Park, by Carol Shields

"The Jane Austen thing" asks, "What is the appeal of these highly mannered and moralistic tales of rigidly choreographed courtship and marriage rituals to a generation of young women brought up to assume they could 'have it all'" In The Progressive, July, 1996 by Elaine Rapping

"Jane Austen wins more fans than Zadie Smith.""Despite the huge commercial success of modern authors such as J K Rowling, Zadie Smith and Helen Fielding, Austen's bittersweet social comedy Pride and Prejudice - written in 1813 - topped a survey of the greatest women writers yesterday." In the Independent (London), May, 2003 by Athalie Matthews

The Pride of Austen Critics: a Prejudice? An essay on how academic literary critics are responding to Jane Austen's popularity, which extends from high to popular culture. By Deborah Kaplan in Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/11/05

"When Jane Austen describes meals, they are never innocent events" New Statesman, July 21, 2003 by Michele Roberts

Erotic literature. A humorous first person essay, in which the writer contends that the novels of Jane Austen and Emily Bronte are more genuinely erotic than those of D.H. Lawrence. New Statesman, Dec 4, 1998 by Rowan Pelling (removed from findarticles.com)

Article compares the fiction and film versions of Austen heroines in Australian Humanities Review

"Jane Austen's Two Inches of Ivory," by Tad Mosel, from a talk at the National Arts Club in 1980, published in Persuasions Occasional Papers #1, 1984

On Jane Austen's novels as money-makers for publishers. "Cents and Sensibility: The surprising truth about sales of classic novels." By Adelle Waldman, Slate Magazine, April 2, 2003

Brief introductory articles (older criticism) of Jane Austen's works, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). On Northanger Abbey On Pride and Prejudice On Sense and Sensibility, On Mansfield Park , On Emma, On Persuasion

Full text of some older criticism on Jane Austen Early twentieth century criticism of Jane Austen's novels and two old biographies are posted on this web site, but it is somewhat difficult to navigate


Biographical Studies

Why Was Jane Austen Sent away to School at Seven? An Empirical Look at a Vexing Question Linda Robinson Walker. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

The first chapter of Claire Tomalin's Jane Austen: a life. London: Viking, 1997

The first chapter of Edward Nokes' Jane Austen: A Life, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997

"Jane Austen in Bath." On Jane Austen's feelings about her time in Bath, in The Spectator, Dec 13-Dec 20, 2003 by Nicolson, Nigel

Henry Austen: Jane Austen's "Perpetual Sunshine," by J. David Grey, published in Persuasions Occasional Papers #1, 1984

The Chawton Years (1809-1817) -- "Only" Novels by Irene B. McDonald. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

A Note on a Jane Austen Connection with the Massachusetts Historical Society: Justice Story, Admiral Wormeley, and Admiral Francis Austen by Farnell Parsons. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

On whether Wordsworth's sailor brother, John, was the mysterious lover mentioned in several accounts originating with Cassandra Austen. "The Still Unknown Lover," Carl H. Ketcham, Univ. of Arizona, in Persuasions #11, 1989

My Aunt, Jane Austen, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Joan Austen Leigh


Austen's Novels, General

Born to Diverge: An Evolutionary Perspective on Sibling Personality Development in Austen's Novels by Peter W. Graham. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

The Creation of Rhetorical Conversation by Tammy Powley. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003

Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian Society by Michael Giffin. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

The Contribution of Count Rumford to Domestic Life in Jane Austen's Time by Hugh Rowlinson. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

Jane Austen's Family of Fiction: From Henry and Eliza to Darcy and Eliza by Joseph Wiesenfarth. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

Rhetorical Dynamics in Jane Austen's Treatment of Marriage Proposals by Serena Hansen. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Adoring the Girl Next Door: Geography in Austen by Susan Morgan. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

Teaching Austen By Editing: From the Juvenilia To Emma by Juliet McMaster and Victoria Kortes-Papp. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

A Feminist Connection: Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft by Miriam Ascarelli. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

"Illustrating Jane Austen," illustrations of Jane Austen's novels and comments by Keiko Parker

Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. (Univ. of California Press, 1992). Litvak contends that private experience in Austen "is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities." Courtesy of the California Digital Library, a complete, book-length critical study

The source of "dramatized consciousness": Richardson, Austen, and stylistic influence On Samuel Richardson Jane Austen - Critical Essay, orig. in Style, Spring, 2001 by Joe Bray

'A barkeeper entering the kingdom of heaven': Did Mark Twain really hate Jane Austen? In Virginia Quarterly Review, The, Winter 1999 by Auerbach, Emily

What's Been Happening to Jane Austen? In The Hudson Review, Summer 2004 by W.H. Pritchard

"Jane Austen's rejection of Rousseau: A novelistic and feminist initiation," in Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1994 by Cohen, Paula Marantz

"Jane Austen and the sin of pride," in Renascence, Winter 1999 by Wolfe, Jesse

Austen's powers: Engaging with Adam Smith in debates about wealth and virtue, in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2000 by Michie, Elsie B

Jane Austen's Politics. A brief but pointed exchange on whether Jane Austen wrote politically conservative novels, between Marilyn Butler and Irvin Ehrenpreis, in the New York Review of Books, April 5, 1979


Novel/Emma (1815)

The Enigma of Harriet Smith Ivor Morris. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth: Shakespearian Comedy in Emma Joann Ryan Morse. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Jane Austen's Emma and Empire: A Postcolonial View by Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Aristos or Aristocracy? Alliances in Emma by Marti D. Lee. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Emma at Box Hill: A Very Questionable Day of Pleasure by Susan Rogers. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Reading Emma: Comic Irony, the Follies of Janeites, and Hermeneutic Mastery by W. Duckworth. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003

The Value of a Good Income: Money in Emma by Sheryl Bonar Craig. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

The Dilemma of Emma: Moral, Ethical, and Spiritual Values by Karin Jackson. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Fathers and Lovers: The Gender Dynamics of Relational Influence in Emma by Kathleen Anderson. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

The Source for Emma's William Larkins by Clive Caplan. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Reading Austen Writing Emma by Suzanne Juhasz. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

Metaphors of Control: Physicality in Emma and Clueless by Sue Parrill. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

Mr. Woodhouse is not a Hypochondriac! by Ted Bader. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

"Box Hill and the Limits of Realism," by Levine, George. "Perhaps the most difficult thing for a modern reader of Emma to do is to take it straight, to accept Mr. Knightley as the moral authority the story seems to make him." In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense," by Gamer, Michael. "(P)art of my aim is simply to show its complexity of signification, particularly the degree to which Austen frustrates even the most fundamental acts of interpretation and upsets rudimentary correspondences between signifiers and apparent signifieds." In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union," by Lynch, Deidre. Scholarly article on the Box Hill episode in Emma, which sees the scene as an acting out of several contradictory imperatives of nationhood and British identity. In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Boxing Emma; or the Reader's Dilemma at the Box Hill Games," by Wolfson, Susan J. A close reading of the Box Hill episode and its ramification in Emma, which demonstrates how the character of Miss Bates is essential to a shifting idea of community in the novel. In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Leaving Box Hill: Emma and Theatricality," by Potkey, Adam. Article traces Austen's stated preferences for Cowper and Johnson in pursuing issues of theatricality and display, to an ultimately deconstructive result. In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Saying What One Thinks: Emma-Emma-at Box Hill," by W. Walling. A consideration of the problem of anachronism, especially as it relates to views that either praise Austen's progressivism or bemoan her cultural limitations. In Re-reading Box Hill: reading the practice of reading everyday life, ed. by W. Galperin, at Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2001

"Clueless: transforming Jane Austen's Emma," In Australian Screen Education, Spring, 2004 by Jane Mills


Novel/Mansfield Park (1814)

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: Determining Authorial Intention Melissa Burns. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Mansfield Park and Austen's Reading on Slavery and Imperial Warfare Moreland Perkins. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

To Govern the Winds: Dangerous Acquaintances at Mansfield Park by Colleen A. Sheehan. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Modernizing Mansfield Park: Patricia Rozema's Spin on Jane Austen by Kathi Groenendyk. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

The View and Patronage of Mansfield Park by Sarah J. Muse. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

"Such a Dead Silence:" Cultural Evil, Challenge, Deliberate Evil, and Metanoia in Mansfield Park by Gracia Fay Ellwood. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003

Moral Neutrality in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Provides economic and political details about slavery in the West Indies, as context for Sir Thomas Bertram's Antigua plantation. By Diane Capitani, In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

A Space for Fanny: The Significance of Her Rooms in Mansfield Park by Melissa Edmundson. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

From Mary Crawford to Kate Croy and Back Again: One Reader's Response to Mansfield Park by Marlene Kondelik. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

Mansfield Park and Morgan's Passing: Jane Austen's and Anne Tyler's Problem Novels by Gene Koppel. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

Slipping the Leash: Lady Bertram's Lapdog by Sally B. Palmer. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

"Possessing Jane Austen: Fidelity, authorship, and Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park (1999)," On film version of Mansfield Park, in Literature/Film Quarterly, 2003 by Aragay, Mireia

Article on women and idleness in Mansfield Park, by Fran Sendbuehler. Originally published by Angelaki (Oxford, UK), special issue "Home and Family," November 1995.

(removed) "Edward Said's useful errors," by John Sutherland, includes discussion of Said's charges that Mansfield Park rests on imperialism, in Times Literary Supplement, 16 March 2005

Davis, Gregson. "Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Connection." Provides historical, biographical and socio-economic contexts, illuminating the references to Antigua in Mansfield Park, includes historic map. From Antigua and Barbuda Country Conference, November 13-15, 2003


Novel/Northanger Abbey (pub. 1818)

Irony and Political Education in Northanger Abbey by Melissa Schaub. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

"Of Course You Can Trust Me!": Jane Austen's Narrator in Northanger Abbey by Henry N. Rogers III. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

Reading by the Book in Northanger Abbey by Barbara Benedict. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

"Willy-Nilly" and Other Tales of Male-Tails: Rightful and Wrongful Laws of Landed Property in Northanger Abbey and Beyond by Deirdre E. Gilbert. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

The Invention of Civility in Northanger Abbey by Joseph Wiesenfarth. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

On the importance of candor in Northanger Abbey. "Northanger Abbey: Catherine Morland and the Vice of the 'Sympathetic Imagination,'" In Deep South v.1 n.1 (February, 1995), by Nicola Cummins


Novel/Persuasion (1818)

Thread-cases, Pin-cushions, and Card-racks: Women's Work in the City in Jane Austen's Persuasion by Susan E. Jones. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

A New View of Jane Austen's Persuasion Lenore Macomber. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003

Persuasion's Unwritten Story by Ivor Morris. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

Friendship in Persuasion: The Equality Factor by Nancy Yee. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Sir Walter Elliot's Looking-Glasses, Mary Musgrove's Sofa, and Anne Elliot's Chair: Exteriority/Interiority, Intimacy/Society by Laurie Kaplan. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

"Persuasion and cinematic approaches to Jane Austen," Literature/Film Quarterly, 2002 by Gottlieb, Sidney

"Persuading the Navy home: Austen and married women's professional property," Article contends that "Persuasion, by telling the story of how the navy is domesticated in the post-Napoleonic years, also tells the story of how domesticity is professionalized" In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1996 by Cohen, Monica F

"A state of alteration, perhaps of improvement": New Social Structures in Persuasion, prize-winning undergraduate essay by Sarah K. Green, 2003, at Persuasions On-Line

An Invisible Writes Back, a student paper compares Jane Austen's valorization of the British navy in Persuasion to Jamacia Kincaid's negative portrayal of the British navy in A Small Place. By David Temperance at the Postcolonial web


Novel/Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The Two Gentlemen of Derbyshire: Nature vs. Nurture Laurie Kaplan. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

"One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it": The Development of Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Preston Wilson. "[T]he experience of reading Pride and Prejudice can become one of verisimilitude, a movement toward recognition of Darcy as a good man and abandonment of prejudice against him on the part of the reader that mirrors Elizabeth's own awakening. However, Austen does offer subtle signals of Darcy's development throughout her novel." In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Elizabeth and Mr. Bennet by Ivor Morris. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Pride and Prejudice , Mr. Collins, and the Art of Misreading by Carole Moses. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

On Pettiness and Petticoats: The Significance of the Petticoat in Pride and Prejudice by Efrat Margalit. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

Laughing at Mr. Darcy: Wit and Sexuality in Pride and Prejudice by Elvira Casal. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

Jane Austen Meets Carl Jung: Pride, Prejudice, and Personality Theory Jenny Rebecca Rytting. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

How Not To Father: Mr. Bennet and Mary by Gracia Fay Ellwood. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy: Art Imitating Art . . . Imitating Art by Cecilia Salber. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

"Excuse my interference": Meddling in Pride and Prejudice by Cecilia Salber. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Inside Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by John Halperin

On entailment and property law in Pride and Prejudice . "Land, Law and Love," in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Luanne Bethke Redmond

Samuel Johnson's influence on Jane Austen. "Mentoring Jane Austen: Reflections on 'My Dear Dr. Johnson,'" in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Gloria Gross

A comparison of two novels illuminates Austen's approach to the novel of manners. "Violet Hunt Rewrites Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Their Lives (1916), in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Joseph Wiesenfarth

Pride and Prejudice : A Classic Love Story, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Barbara Sherrod

The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by John McAleer

"Assertion and Aggression in the Novels of Jane Austen" Article makes use of the distinction between assertion and aggression from popular books on "assertiveness training" to discuss Austen's characters. In Persuasions #11, 1989, by Dwight McCawley

Secrets, Silence, and Surprise in Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Bruce Stoval

"Reversal and Revelation: The Five Seasons in Pride and Prejudice ," How Austen's use of the seasonal cycle as narrative framework links her to both the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. In Persuasions #11, 1989, by Sara Wingard

Sisterhood and Friendship in Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Deborah J. Knuth

What Happened Next? or The Many Husbands of Georgiana Darcy, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Kathleen Glancy

Mothers, Substitute Mothers, and Daughters in the Novels of Jane Austen, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Mary Margaret Benson

Sibling Love in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Glenda A. Hudson

Pride and Prejudice : Conservative or Liberal Novel -- Or Both?, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Gene Koppel

"Pride and Prejudice : An Informal History of the Motion Picture," On the 1940 Garson-Olivier Motion Picture, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Kenneth Turan

"Interview: Ann Rutherford, Marsha Hunt, Karen Morley," Interview with the actresses from 1940 motion picture version of Pride and Prejudice , in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Kenneth Turan

Pride and Prejudice Quiz, in Persuasions #11, 1989, by Mary Millard

The Penguin Reader's Guide to Pride and Prejudice contains a brief intro to the novel, a bio of Austen, some related articles, and discussion questions


Novel/Sense and Sensibility (1811)

"The Amiable Prejudices of a Young [Writer's] Mind": The Problems of Sense and Sensibility Joan Klingel Ray. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Speaking of Silence: Speech and Silence as a Subversive Means of Power in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Michal Beth Dinkler. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Colonel Brandon: an Officer and a Gentleman in Sense and Sensibility by Geoff Chapman. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

The Sense and Sensibility of Jane Austen by Rachel Lerman. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.2 , Summer 2000

Jane Austen in Vienna: Some Reflections on a Curious Socio-Historical Application of Her Two Illustrious Antinomies by Rene Goldman. Brief reflections on an essay by historian Steven Beller. "Referring to the antinomy of Sense and Sensibility and the theme of that great novel, in which sense triumphs over sensibility, reason over unbridled emotion, the requirements of society over individualism, Beller asks which side—Jews, or anti-Semites—had a better sense of the social reality of fin-de-siècle Vienna." In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

Sense and Sensibility : An Eighteenth-Century Narrative by Diane Shubinsky. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

The Penguin Reader's Guide to Sense and Sensibility contains a brief intro to the novel and a bio of Austen


Lady Susan

"No business with politics": Writing the Sentimental Heroine in Desmond and Lady Susan Susan Allen Ford. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Lady Susan : A Game of Capturing the Last Word from Lady Susan to Jane Austen, and Then ... by Michiko Soya. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003


Austen's Language and Style

Vocabulary Profiles of Letters and Novels of Jane Austen and her Contemporaries David Andrew Graves. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Article uses computers to analyze speakers and speech in Jane Austen's novels, by Eric Johnson

A description of a computer-aided study developed to identify the use of Latinate language by characters in Jane Austen. "Computing Latinate Word Usage in Jane Austen's Novels," by Mary DeForest and Eric Johnson in Computers and Text, Spring 2000


Themes

Jane Austen's Idea of a Home S. M. Abdul Khaleque. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Laughing at Our Neighbors: Jane Austen and the Problem of Charity Sarah Emsley. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

"...[I]nventing elegant letters,or, why don't Austen's lovers write more often? Elisabeth Lenckos. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Writing by the Book: Jane Austen's Heroines and the Art and Form of the Letter Cheryl L. Nixon and Louise Penner. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

The Felicities of Rapid Motion: Jane Austen in the Ballroom by Allison Thompson. In Persuasions On-Line, V.21, No.1 , Winter 2000

Chances Are-The Role of Fortune in Jane Austen's Novels by Tina Enhoffer. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

Austen and the Advantage of Height by Jean Graham. In Persuasions On-Line, V.20, No.1 , Summer 1999

Jane Austen and Time A collection of writings on Jane Austen posted by professor Ellen Moody, which includes her article "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility ," originally published in Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), and another detailed study of the calendars in all Austen's novels. Also Jane Austen on Film for Moody's discussion of film versions of Austen's novels

On the meaning of social dancing in Pride and Prejudice and Emma, by Karen Woods. In The Austen Quarterly, Vol. 3 no.1 (Spring 1999)


Scholarly Journals Online

http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/ Persuasions, the Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America, published its first full-text online edition, Vol 20, in Summer 1999 and now has the issues through 2005 online, as a public service. Indexed here through Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

http://facstaff.uww.edu/hipchene/JAusten/quarterly.htm The Spring 1999 edition of the Jane Austen Quarterly, published by the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars. An internet journal publishing full-text academic articles

http://facstaff.uww.edu/hipchene/JAusten/archives.htm Archived copies of the Jane Austen Quarterly, published by the American Society of Jane Austen Scholars, go back to August 1996


Bibliography and Internet Texts

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Feminist Bibliography, from Misty G. Anderson, Univ. of Tennessee

Jane Austen Works and Studies 2004 Barry Roth. In Persuasions On-Line, V. 26, No. 1, Winter 2005

Jane Austen Works and Studies 2003 by Barry Roth. In Persuasions On-Line, Volume 25, No. 1, Winter 2004

Jane Austen Works and Studies 2002 Barry Roth. Persuasions On-Line, V.24, No.1 , Winter 2003

Jane Austen Works and Studies 2001 Barry Roth. In Persuasions On-Line, V.23, No.1 , Winter 2002

Jane Austen Works and Studies 1999 Barry Roth. In Persuasions On-Line, V.22, No.1 , Winter 2001

A list of recent scholarly articles on Austen taken from the 1999 MLA bibliography

An annotated bibliography of Jane Austen sources at the Newberry Library in Chicago

For a list of Austen's etexts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet. (With most digitized texts it's possible to use the edit/find function in your browser to find a key word in the text.)


Web Sites

Jane Austen section of "Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell Univ. that contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions

A site from the Hampshire, England, County Council on Jane Austen's biography, homes, locations, and substantial discussions of the films of Jane Austen's novels


Reviews of Scholarship on Jane Austen


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