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Articles on Jane Austen
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Who was Jane Austen’s ‘model reader’? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
Writers have long rhapsodised about real estate – or the difficulty acquiring it – but contemporary authors are asking awkward questions about the inequities of our property obsession.
Zora Simic has never been married, nor wanted to. She assesses two new books about feminism and marriage – Clementine Ford’s polemic against it and Rachael Lennon’s history of its reformation.
When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.
New rules following a spate of bank failures in 19th century Britain could provide some lessons for today’s regulators.
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
How do you get a reader in 1930s China to understand what a mince pie is?
From sharing books to keeping a lock of your intended’s hair, why not try finding love the Georgian way?
Persuasion is a distinctly romantic modern comedy in tone – but how much does historical accuracy matter?
Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
Computers can now mimic everything from literary characters to Nirvana songs.
People have always wanted others to know they’re smart, and what better way to do that than with clothes?
The controversial fantasy novel and its sequels enticed more authors to experiment with self-publishing, but the latter has a history that long predates the steamy bestseller.
Storing information using polymers could be more efficient than DNA data storage.
The closure of physical buildings doesn’t have to mean that new readers should miss out on literary history
The Regency period was full of gossip and scandal, something Bridgerton gets right. However, it leaves out the period’s grim record on slavery.
‘Bridgerton’ alludes to and obscures social, racial and political tensions in England’s Regency era, the extraordinary decade that marks the dawn of the modern world.
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Adjunct Associate in English, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, Literary Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide
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University of Salford
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Bradley Professor of English Literature and Pro Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow
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Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of English, University of Sydney
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Reader in Literature and Visual Culture, School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Kent
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Professor of English, University of Southampton
