Friday,
March 4 _______________________
9:30 A.M. |
Coffee |
10:00 A.M. |
Anne K. Mellor, UCLA
Moderator
Janet Todd, University of Aberdeen
Jane Austen and the Professions
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, University of Colorado, Boulder
“It appears at once both keen and bright / And sparkles while it wounds”: Political and Sexual Humor in Jane Austen’s Novels
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12:30 P.M. |
Lunch |
2:00 P.M. |
Anne K. Mellor, UCLA
Moderator
Robert M. Polhemus, Stanford University
Mansfield Park: the Politics of Male-Bashing and Ordination
Saree Makdisi, UCLA
Empire and Desire in Austen’s Fiction
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4:00 P.M. |
Reception |
Saturday, March 5_______________________
9:30 A.M. |
Coffee |
10:00 A.M. |
Jonathan H. Grossman, UCLA
Moderator
Alex Woloch, Stanford University
Character Insecurity in Sense and Sensibility
Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, University of London
“Brother and Sister Indeed”: Dangerous Closeness and Family Fortunes
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12:00 P.M. |
Lunch |
2:00 P.M. |
Jonathan H. Grossman, UCLA
Moderator
Deidre Shauna Lynch, Indiana University
“Young Ladies are Delicate Plants”: Jane Austen and Greenhouse Romanticism
Andrew Higson, University of East Anglia
“The Hottest Writer in Show Business”: Jane Austen, Anglo-Hollywood Film Production, and Heritage England
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