You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s September Meeting
Celebrating 200 Years of Persuasion with
Dr. Cheryl Kinney*
“Persuasion: Engineered Injury”
Sunday, 16 September 2018, 1 -3 pm
Morgan Room, Aiken Hall,
83 Summit Street, Champlain College, Burlington VT
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C. E. Brock, ‘Persuasion’ (Dent, 1898)
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By examining the various injuries and illnesses in the novel (think Anne’s “loss of bloom and spirits;” Mary’s “always worse than anybody’s” sore throats; Louisa “taken up lifeless” on the Cobb pavement; and more), Dr, Kinney will show how Jane Austen uses these bodily changes to expose the moral worth and inner nature of her characters. The talk also reviews the changes that were occurring in Regency medicine and how Jane Austen’s interaction with doctors influenced her writing.
~ Free & open to the public ~
~ Light refreshments served ~
For more information: JASNAVTregion@gmail.com /
Please visit our blog at: http://JaneAustenInVermont.blog
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*Dr. Kinney is a gynecologist in Dallas, Texas, listed in “Best Doctors in America” since 2001, named by the Consumer’s Research Council as one of “America’s Top Obstetricians and Gynecologists” yearly since 2002, and chosen as a “Texas Super Doctor” by her peers for the last eleven years. She is on several medical-related boards and has lectured around the world on issues relating to gynecology. But also, and lucky for us, she has been very involved in the Jane Austen Society of North America, both at the national and regional level, and has spoken in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on health and sickness in the novels of Jane Austen and other 18th and 19th century British authors.
Hope you can join us!
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Upcoming meeting: Dec. 2, 2018: Annual Birthday Brunch / Tea, with Prof. Anna Battigelli (SUNY-Plattsburgh) on “Landscapes and Soundscapes in Jane Austen’s Narratives”
Jane Austen in Vermont 