Politicizing Jane Austen

A conference at the Clark Library, March 4-5, 2005
Arranged by Anne K. Mellor, UCLA and Jonathan H. Grossman, UCLA


Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

March 4-5, 2005– at the Clark Library


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

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

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

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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