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1998 Annual General Meeting, Oct 9-11, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Theme: “Northanger Abbey: the Gothic and More”
Conference Speakers and Topics
Banquet Speaker
Maggie Lane, Author: “Jane Austen and Food”
Published in Persuasions 20 (1998).
“The French Bread at Northanger.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 135-145.
Plenary Sessions
| Friday | Kenneth Graham | “The Case of the Petulant Patriarch” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “The Case of the Petulant Patriarch.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 119-134. |
Guelph University, Ontario, Author of many books and articles on Gothic fiction |
| Saturday | David Mendel | An illustrated talk on the neo-Gothic architecture of Quebec City | Local historian and tour guide |
| Sunday | Mary-Ellen Reisner | “Jane Austen's Quebec” | Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Author: Strangers and Pilgrims |
Panel Discussions
Horrid Session: Jane Austen’s involvement in and adoption of the Gothic
| Jan Fergus | “The Gothic Moan” | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, Author: Jane Austen and the Didactic Novel; Jane Austen: A Literary Life |
| Isobel Grundy | “An Augustan’s Gothic” | University of Alberta, Co-editor, Feminist Companion to Literature in English; Biographer of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Barbara Seeber | “Reframed violence” in The Monk, The Italian, and Northanger Abbey | Regional Coordinator, Prince Edward Island Region |
Breakout Sessions
| Christine Alexander | “The Prospect of Blaise: Landscape and Perception in Northanger Abbey” | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Irene Collins | “The Reverend Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodson“ Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “The Rev. Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodston.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 154-164. |
Author: Jane Austen and the Clergy |
| Stephen Clarke | “Abbeys Real and Imagined”—slide presentation Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill, and Aspects of the Gothic Revival.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 92-105. |
Architectural historian, England |
| Joan Austen-Leigh | “Jane Austen: The French Connection” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Jane Austen: The French Connection.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 106-118. |
Co-founder of JASNA; founding editor of Persuasions |
| David Oakleaf | “Narrating and Reading in Northanger Abbey” | University of Calgary |
| Juliet McMaster | “Speakers of Northanger Abbey” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Clothing the Thought in the Word: The Speakers of Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 207-221. |
University of Alberta, Author of numerous books and articles; Co-organizer of Lake Louise AGM |
| Bruce Stovel |
“Northanger Abbey at the Movies” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Northanger Abbey at the Movies.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 236-247. |
University of Alberta, Co-organizer of Lake Louise AGM |
| Robert Merrett | “Jane Austen’s Economic View of Literary Nationalism” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Consuming Modes in Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Economic View of Literary Nationalism.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 222-235. |
University of Alberta, Former president of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| Celine Kear and Ruby Donner | “Entail, Marriage Settlements and Jointures in Northanger Abbey and Other Jane Austen Novels” | Celine Kear is Regional Coordinator, Manitoba Region |
| Eleanor Ty | "What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles" Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Catherine’s Real and Imagined Fears: What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 248-260. |
Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Author of various works on eighteenth-century women writers |
| Claire Grogan | “Publishing Northanger Abbey: Then and Now”—slide presentation | Editor, Broadview edition of Northanger Abbey |
| Jacqueline Reid Walsh | “Education of Catherine Morland” | Regional Coordinator, Montreal Region |
| Sheila Kindred | “Catherine Morland’s development in Bath“ Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “From Puppet to Person: The Development of Catherine’s Character in the Bath Chapters of Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 196-206. |
St. Mary’s University, Nova Scotia |
| John Dussinger | “General Tilney as Gothic Monster“ Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Parents Against Children: General Tilney as Gothic Monster.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 165-174. |
University of Illinois, Champaign, Author: In the Pride of the Moment |
| Joseph Wiesenfarth | “Invention of Civility in Northanger Abbey” | University of Wisconsin, Madison, Co-organizer of Madison AGM |
| Deirdre Gilbert | “Significance of primogeniture in Northanger Abbey” | Regional Coordinator, Colorado |
| Loftus Jestin | “Linguistic Effusions in Northanger Abbey” | Chairman, English Department, Central Connecticut State University, Author of a book on Thomas Gray |
| Richard Quaintance | “Austen’s Heroine-Teasing Narrators Before, During, and After Northanger Abbey” | Rutgers University, New Jersey |
| Barbara Benedict | “What Books Prove in Northanger Abbey”—illustrated presentation | Trinity College, Connecticut, Author of books and articles on eighteenth-century fiction |
| Nancy Johnson | “Northanger Abbey and the Politics of the Gothic” | Associate Editor of the Boswell Papers, Yale University |
| Joan R. Viedenburgh | “Bath and the English Country House; The Importance of Place in Northanger Abbey” | Doctoral dissertation on Northanger Abbey |
| Elvira Casal | “Known and Imagined Mothers in Northanger Abbey” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Motherhood and Reality in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 146-153. |
Nashville,Tennessee |
| Douglas Murray | “The Heroine in Public: Meeting and Resisting the Gaze in Northanger Abbey”—illustrated presentation | Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, Co-editor, Oxford edition, Jane Austen’s Catharine and Other Writings |
| Devoney Looser and George Justice | “He Says, She Says: Dueling Interpretations of Courtship in Northanger Abbey” Published in Persuasions 20 (1998). “Northanger Abbey as Anti-Courtship Novel.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 185-195. |
Devoney Looser teaches at the University of Wisconsin; editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism, George Justice teaches at Marquette University |
JASNA Business Sessions
Thursday: Regional Coordinators Training Institute, 8:30 am
Thursday: Board of Directors Meeing, 4:30 pm
Saturday: JASNA and JASNA-Canada Business Meetings (Time TBA)
Sunday: Regional Coordinators Breakfast, 8:00 am
Entertainment
Friday: Breakfast at the Astral, 29th floor of Loews Le Concorde Hotel; tour of the Jeanne d’Arc Garden with Larry Hodgson; concert of music from New France by l’Ensemble Novelle France; reception with music by a harpist
Saturday: Continental breakfast; banquet in the evening preceded by a cash bar
Sunday: Specially-designed cathedral service; brunch at the hotel