An eclectic collection of speakers means a diverse reference pool.
To help enrich your exchange with our speakers we're giving you HOMEWORK!
Each speaker was asked to submit a "suggested reading list"¯ that which you
may wish to read in advance so you may get the moost from these sessions.
We submit the following for your consideration:
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Session |
Speaker |
Suggested Reading |
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Plenary Sessions | ||
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Daniel James Cole |
1. Jane Austen Fashion, by Penelope Byrde (Excellent Press, 1999) 2. Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing (Shire, 2010) |
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Sandy Lerner |
1. Second Impressions by Ava Farmer |
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Cornel West |
1. The Life of Drama, by Eric Bentley 2. Sincerity and Authenticity, by Lionel Trilling |
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Young Scholars Panel: New Directions in Austen Scholarship | ||
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Rachel Brownstein Gillian Dow Alice Villasenõr Juliette Wells |
1. Why Jane Austen by Rachel Brownstein 2. Janeites, ed. Deidre Lynch 3. Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination by Juliette Wells |
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Breakout Sessions | ||
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A1 |
Janine Barchas |
Books on the topic of book design: 1. Phil Baines, Penguin by Design: a Cover Story 1935-2005 (Alen Lane, 2007) 2. Nicholson Baker, Size of Thoughts (Random House, 1997) 3. Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton, 2012) |
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A4 |
Elvira Casal |
1. Emma and Pride and Prejudice 2. "Laughing at Mr. Darcy: Wit and Sexuality in Pride and Prejudice" (Persuasions Online 22:1--Winter 2001) (http://bit.ly/PRgo3q) |
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A6 |
Sarah Emsley |
1. Lady Susan by Jane Austen 2. Familiarity with Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country would be helpful, though not essential |
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B5 |
Miriam Rheingold Fuller |
1. All of Austen's mature novels with the possible exception of Persuasion and Emma 2. Lines 101-122 of Canto One of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. |
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C2 |
Nancy Magnuson |
1. Chapter 2, "Alberta H. Burke, Austen Omnivore" of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination by Juliette Wells |
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C5 |
Sheila Johnson Kindred & Hugh M. Kindred |
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen 2. Kindred,Sheila Johnson, "Charles Austen: Prize Chaser and Prize Taker on the North American Station 1805-1808," Persuasions 26, 2004, pp. 188-194. http://bit.ly/MjBbWI 3. Kindred, Sheila Johnson, "The Influence of Naval Captain Charles Austen's North American Experiences on Persuasion and Mansfield Park," Persuasions 31, pp. 115-129. (http://bit.ly/N5C4Xf) |
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D2 |
Elaine Bander |
1. Pride and Prejudice [Approach the story through the eyes of one who doesn't know what will happen next] |
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D6 |
Marie Sprayberry |
1. A biography of the Prince Regent (aka King George IV). My personal favorite is Christopher Hibbert's George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King. 2. Jane Austen: A Family Record (Austen-Leigh and Le Faye) and/or Jane Austen: A Life (Claire Tomalin). 3. Austen's Juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and the Letters. |
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D7 |
Marcia McClintock Folsom |
Mansfield Park · Volume 1, Chapters 1-3, 14-18 · Volume 2, Chapter 13 · Volume 3, Chapters 1, 2, 6, 16, and 17 |