Happy New Year One and All! If one of your Resolutions was to read more about Jane Austen, here is a great place to start!

The latest Persuasions On-Line is now available on the JASNA.org website:  http://www.jasna.org/publications/persuasions-online/volume-39-no-1/

Persuasions On-Line Volume 39, No. 1 (Winter 2018)

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2017: KANSAS CITY: PERSUASION: 200 YEARS OF CONSTANCY AND HOPE

1. How the “Long War” Affected Jane Austen’s Family and Her Novels – Collins Hemingway
2. “She Had Only Navy-Lists and Newspapers for Her Authority” – Hazel Jones
3. Sailors in Fiction before Persuasion’s “Gentlemen of the Navy” – Susan Allen Ford
4. Captain Wentworth and the Duke of Monmouth: Brilliant, Dangerous, and Headstrong – Jocelyn Harris
5. The Grace to Deserve: Weighing Merit in Jane Austen’s Persuasion – Mary Ellen Bertolini
6. A Tale of Two Captains: Whose Heart Is Worth Having? – Theresa Kenney
7. Ivory and Canvas: Naval Miniature Portraiture in Jane Austen’s Persuasion – Moriah Webster
8. “A State of Alteration”: Stylistic Contrasts in the Musgroves’ Parlor – Kristen Miller Zohn
9. Revisiting Lake Louise 1993 – Juliet McMaster

MISCELLANY

1. Three Pamphlets on the Leigh-Perrot Trial: Why Austen Sent Susan to Crosby – Margie Burns
2. Where Jane Austen Sat: The “Austin” Box at Edmund Kean’s Shylock, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, March 5, 1814 – David Worrall
3. Nonsense Elements in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia – Donna R. White
4. Marianne Dashwood’s Repentance, Willoughby’s “Repentance,” and The Book of Common Prayer – Brenda S. Cox
5. The Probable Location of Donwell Abbey in Jane Austen’s Emma – Kenneth Smith
6. To be “esteemed quite worthy”: Fortunes, Futures, and Economic Language in Persuasion – Maria Frawley, Kaitlyn Nigro, and Gwendolyn Umbach
7. “Even Miss Bates Has Mind”: A Cognitive Historicist Reading of Emma’s Miss Bates – Kathleen R. Steele
8. Jane, Bingley, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Or, the Other Couple in Pride and Prejudice – Jenny Rebecca Rytting
9. Jane Austen in the Nursing Classroom: A Tool to Expand Psychiatric Assessment Skills – Tawny Burgess
10. Pride and Prejudice in Black and White: First and Last Impressions (1938–1967) – Reinier Wels
11. Pride and Prejudice in Black and White: De vier dochters Bennet (1961–1962) – Reinier Wels
12. Lost in Austen: A Postmodern Reanimation of Pride and Prejudice – Wim Tigges
13. Jane Austen Bibliography, 2017 – Deborah Barnum

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The Table of Contents of Persuasions 39 (2017) is now online as well (alas! the essays are not – reason enough to become a JASNA member…): http://www.jasna.org/publications/persuasions/no-39/

Papers from the AGM 2O17: HUNTINGTON BEACH: JANE AUSTEN IN PARADISE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

1. Women of Genius: Jane Austen, Germaine de Staël, and the Nineteenth-Century Heroine – Gillian Dow (13-30)
2. Godmersham Park Library: Jane Austen’s Paradise Regained – Peter Sabor (31-44)
3. The Child Is Mother to the Novelist: From the Juvenilia to the Novels – Juliet McMaster (45-56 )
4. Dirty Girls, Dirty Books, and the Breakdown of Boundaries in Jane Austen’s Fiction – Kathy Justice Gentile (57-69)
5. “I Cannot Get Out”: The Self-Imposed Afterlife of Maria Bertram – Leta Sundet (70-77)
6. Sanditon at 200: Intimations of a New Consumerist Society – Sara Dustin (78-87)
7. Modernist Jane: Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties – Lisa Tyler (88-99)
8. In and Out of the Foxholes: Talking of Jane Austen During and After World War II – Annette M. LeClair (100-111)
9. Angela Thirkell and “Miss Austen” – Sara Bowen (112-125)
10. After Jane Austen – Devoney Looser (126-146)
11. JASNA and the Academy: The Anxiety of Affiliation – Elaine Bander (147-162)
12. Becoming Catherine Morland: A Cautionary Tale of Manuscripts in the Archive – Emily C. Friedman (163-173)

MISCELLANY

1. Jane Austen and Catharine Macaulay – Karen Green (177-183)
2. A Third Publisher’s Advertisement for Susan Found: Why Didn’t Crosby Publish Jane Austen? – Margie Burns (184-202)
3. The Watsons: Its Place in Jane Austen’s Development as a Writer – David Hughes (203-212)
4. Deception with a Graceful Bow: Northanger Abbey’s General Tilney and Dance Semiotics – Sabrina M. Gilchrist (213-221)
5. Jane Austen and Roman History – Herbert W. Benario (222-225)
6. “She Heard All Mrs. Elton’s Knight-Errantry on the Subject”: Emma as Chivalric Romance -Tiffany Schubert (226-234)
7. Mobility, the Outdoors, and Social Position in Persuasion – E. Holly Pike (235-242)
8. Sanditon and the Pursuit of Health – Michael Biddiss (243-254)

That should keep you all busy for a good while…

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