Claudia Johnson | Jane Austen and the Sublime
Jane Austen’s novels are often regarded the acme of everything clear, definite, delimited. Drawing on Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Mansfield Park, this lecture argues that Austen’s characters, on the contrary, are often staggered and amazed and silenced by the by experiences that, to them, seem formidable and immense; and that discerning Austen’s commitment to the sublime invites us to reclassify her as a novelist of grandeur rather one bounded by "two inches of ivory.”
Claudia L. Johnson joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and was Chair of the English Department from 2004-2012. Her major books include Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s. She also edited The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey.
Claudia L. Johnson joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and was Chair of the English Department from 2004-2012. Her major books include Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel, and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s. She also edited The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey.
Kim Wilson | At Home with Jane Austen
“From her youth in a country rectory in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, England—where she wrote her first stories for her friends, Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third—to the fashionable spa town of Bath, to the seaport of Southampton, to her final years in her last settled home at peaceful Chawton Cottage, where she penned her most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s life was hardly that of a shut in.”
Kim Wilson is a writer, editor, and gardener who lives in Wisconsin and is a longtime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She is the author of Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her talk will illuminate the daily life of the Austen family, from the homestead to the city.
Kim Wilson is a writer, editor, and gardener who lives in Wisconsin and is a longtime member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She is the author of Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Her talk will illuminate the daily life of the Austen family, from the homestead to the city.
Randi Pahlau | Passions and Pemberley: Jane Austen's Christian Care for all Creatures
Randi Pahlau is a PhD Candidate in British Literature at Kent State University, studying both William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. She has been at Malone University for 25 years where she teaches World Literature, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. Her focus is stewardship and dominion over the land and animals in Austen’s works. Randi is also a member of JASNA Ohio North Coast, where she serves on the program committee.