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Persuasions 29 prints more essays from the 2007 Annual General Meeting, Discovering Emma in Vancouver.  Highlights include plenary talks by Jocelyn Harris, Juliet McMaster, and Janet Todd; speculation as to what might have interested Jane Austen about British contact with the indigenous population of North America’s northwest coast; and a variety of discoveries about Highbury, including its political geography, its relation to London, its inhabitants on the autistic spectrum, and even its apples!  The Miscellany features an essay by Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club, on adaptation as well as articles on James Stanier Clarke, horrid novels, Jane Austen’s rhetoric, and more.

“Global Jane Austen,” a special issue of Persuasions On-Line, contains a wide variety of essays on cross-cultural adaptations, including Austen in Turkey, on Spanish television, and in Bollywood, as well as appropriations by the contemporary market place (from thong underwear to Christian romance).