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Jane Austen Society of North America
2008 Annual General
Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
October 2-5
"Jane
Austen's Legacy: Life, Love, & Laughter"
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Plenary
Speakers
North American Scholars Lecture - Panel
“How far across countries, cultures and disciplines does Jane
Austen’s legacy reach?”
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The legacy of Jane Austen extends far beyond Regency England to
modern times, distant hemispheres, and disciplines as diverse as literature, landscape design, and botany.
The panel will consider the influence Austen exerts on some of the world’s finest novelists and artists,
as well as the many popular tributes paid to the author by her readers from Europe, Asia, America, and beyond.
Panel members include Inger Sigrun
Brodey, Paula Cohen, Gillian Dow, Peter Graham and Elisabeth
Lenckos. Elisabeth Lenckos will lead the panel in discussion. More on panel...
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Carol Medine Moss
Keynote Lecture - Claudia Johnson
“Can We Ever Have Enough of Jane Austen?”
Published in Persuasions 30 (2008).
“A Name to Conjure With.”
Persuasions 30 (2008): 15-26.
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Chair and Professor of English Literature at Princeton University, and has authored numerous works on 18th and 19th
century literature, including Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender
and Sentimentality in the 1790s. She has also prepared scholarly editions of several Austen novels,
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Joan Klingel Ray
“Jane Austen for Smarties”
Published in Persuasions 30 (2008).
“Victorians versus Victorians: Understanding ‘Dear Aunt Jane.’”
Persuasions 30 (2008): 38-52.
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Joan Ray teaches at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs, where she is University President’s
Teaching Scholar, a lifetime title awarded to outstanding faculty.
She is editing the Dictionary of
Literary Biography volume on Jane Austen. Her papers on
Austen include
“In Defense of Lady Russell: The Godmother Knew Best”
(Persuasions 15) and
“Jane Austen’s Case Study in Child Abuse,” about
Mansfield
Park (Persuasions
13). Dr. Ray has published in numerous scholarly journals, including
Studies in Philology, The
George Herbert Journal, The
Explicator, Dickens
Quarterly, and Studies in
Short Fiction.
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