2011 AGM Reading List

Sense and Sensibility in JASNA Publications

Explore the wealth of perspectives on Sense and Sensibility offered in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line and by the winners of JASNA’s 2011 Essay Contest.  The following reading list was prepared for the bicentenary of Austen's first published novel and served as a preview of our 2011 conference, “Jane Austen: 200 Years of Sense and Sensibility,” held in Ft. Worth, TX.
   

Heroes and Heroines: Sense or Sensibility?

• “The Extraordinary Fate of Marianne Dashwood” by Mary Millard.  Persuasions 3 (1981): 5.
• “The Apprenticeship of Elinor Dashwood” by June M. Frazer.  Persuasions 3 (1981): 6.
• “Whose Sense? Whose Sensibility?” by Eva Brann.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 131-33.
• “The Fall on High-church Down” by Sharlene Roeder.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 60.
• “Colonel Brandon: an Officer and a Gentleman in Sense and Sensibility” by Geoff Chapman.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Winter 2000).
• “The Passion of Marianne Dashwood: Christian Rhetoric in Sense and Sensibility” by Anne Richards.  Persuasions 25 (2003): 141-54.
• “Mrs. Jennings and Mrs. Palmer: The Path to Female Self-Determination in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” by Kathleen Anderson and Jordan Kidd.  Persuasions 30 (2008): 135-48.
• “Willoughby’s Apology” by C. Durning Carroll.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).

Sense, Sensibility, Satire or … ?

• “The Problem of the Interesting” by Patricia Meyer Spacks.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 71-78.
• “Imperfect Articulation: A Saving Instability in Sense and Sensibility” by Thorell Tsomondo.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 99-110.
• “Jane Austen’s Attractive Rogues: Willoughby, Wickham, and Frank Churchill” by Lynda A. Hall.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 186-90.
• “Speaking of Silence: Speech and Silence as a Subversive Means of Power in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” by Michal Beth Dinkler.  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (Winter 2004).

The Social World of Sense and Sensibility

• “Every Body Does Not Hunt” by Patricia Jo Kulisheck.  Persuasions 8 (1986): 20-24.
• ”All the ‘Write’ Moves: or, Theatrical Gesture in Sense and Sensibility” by Judith Warner Fisher.  Persuasions 9 (1987): 17-22.
• “That Infamous Flannel Waistcoat” by Eileen Sutherland.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 58.
• “‘He to Defend, I to Punish’: Silence and the Duel in Sense and Sensibility” by Vince Brewton.  Persuasions 23 (2001): 78-89.
• “Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: The Sense and Sensibility of Land Reform” by Celia Easton.  Persuasions 24 (2002): 71-89.
• “The Family of Dashwood: The Effect of Wills and Entailments on Family Connections in Sense and Sensibility” by Stephanie M. Eddleman.  Graduate Essay Contest Winner (2002).
• “Jane Austen and Civility: A Distant Reading” by Ana Mitrić.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 194-208.
• “Sense and Sensibility: 3 or 4 Country Families in an Urban Village” by Laurie Kaplan.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 196-209.

Jane Austen: Writing and Literary Inheritance

• “Jane Austen as an Historical Novelist; Sense and Sensibility” by Karl Kroeber.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 10-18.
• “Jane Austen’s Use of Measure for Measure in Sense and Sensibility” by Stephen Derry.  Persuasions 15 (1993): 37-41.
• “Sources of Chapter Two of Sense and Sensibility” by Stephen Derry.  Persuasions 16 (1994): 25-27.
• “Sense and Sensibility: An Eighteenth-Century Narrative” by Diane Shubinsky.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• “Fun and Speculation: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice as Revisions” by Deborah J. Knuth Klenck.  Persuasions 27 (2005): 39-53.
• “What Happens at the Party: Jane Austen Converses with Charlotte Smith” by Jacqueline Labbe.  Persuasions On-Line 30.2 (Spring 2010).

Sense and Sensibility on Screen

•  “Jane Austen ‘Responds’ to the Men’s Movement” by Devoney Looser.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 159-70.
• “Mass Marketing Jane Austen: Men, Women, and Courtship in Two of the Recent Films” by Deborah Kaplan.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 171-81.
• “What Meets the Eye: Landscape in the Films Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility” by Sue Parrill.  Persuasions 21 (1999): 32-43.
• “Code Word Jane Austen, or How a Chinese Film about Martial Arts Teaches Life Arts” by Joan Klingel Ray.  Persuasions 22 (2000): 7-12.
• “How Masculinity Plays: Effects of Musicianship in the 1995 Film Adaptation of Sense and Sensibility” by Sarah R. Wakefield.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “The Banquet of Desire: A South Indian Sense and Sensibility” by R. N. Simhan.  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (Spring 2008).
• “A Thoroughly Elinor Sort of Way: Elinor’s Sensibility in Masterpiece’s Sense and Sensibility” by Daniel R. Mangiavellano.  Persuasions On-Line 29.1 (Winter 2008).
• “Colonel Brandon: Hero in a Flannel Waistcoat” by Mary E. Chiapetta.  High School Essay Contest Winner (2008).
• “Sororadelphia, or ‘even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal’” by James Thompson.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).