2016 AGM Reading List

Emma in JASNA Publications

This curated reading list was prepared for the bicentenary of Emma and JASNA's 2016 AGM, “Emma at 200: ‘No One But Herself,’” held in Washington, DC. It includes a small selection of articles and essays available in Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line.

Emma’s World: Highbury and Beyond

• “A Hypothetical Map of Highbury” by Penny Gay.  Persuasions On-Line 36.1 (Winter 2015).
• “Austen Writing Bristol: The City and Signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma” by Gillian Ballinger.  Persuasions On-Line 36.1 (Winter 2015).
• “Emma and ‘the children in Brunswick Square’” by Laurie Kaplan.  Persuasions 31 (2009): 236-47.
• “Jane Austen’s Englishness: Emma as National Tale” by Brian C. Southam.  Persuasions 30 (2008): 187-201.
• “Exploring the World in Highbury” by Barbara Britton Wenner.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 54-66.
• “‘It Must Be Done in London’: The Suburbanization of Highbury” by Tara Ghoshal Wallace.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 67-78.
• “Jane Austen’s ‘passion for taking likenesses’: Portraits of the Prince Regent in Emma” by Douglas Murray.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 132-44.
• “Adoring the Girl Next Door: Geography in Austen’s Novels” by Susan Morgan.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Winter 2000).
  
  

Heroines

• “The New Emma in Emma” by Bruce Stovel.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “Jane Fairfax’s Choice: The Sale of Human Flesh or Human Intellect” by Lynda A. Hall.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “The Enigma of Harriet Smith” by Ivor Morris.  Persuasions On-Line 26.1 (Winter 2005).
• “Emma at Box Hill: A Very Questionable Day of Pleasure” by Susan Rogers.  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (Winter 2004).
• “The Dilemma of Emma: Moral, Ethical, and Spiritual Values” by Karin Jackson.  Persuasions On-Line 21.2 (Summer 2000).
• “Reading Austen Writing Emma” by Suzanne Juhasz.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Winter 2000).
• “‘The word was blunder’: Who was Harriet Smith’s Mother?” by Edith Lank.  Persuasions 7 (1985): 14-15.
• “The Powers of the Instrument: Or Jane, Frank, and the Pianoforte” by Judith Wilt.  Persuasions 5 (1983): 41-47.
  
  

Heroes

• “‘And I am changed also’: Mr. Knightley’s Conversion to Amiability” by Theresa Kenney.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 110-20.
• “Frank’s Fragmentation” by Christopher A. Griffith.  Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner (2007).
• “Fathers and Lovers: The Gender Dynamics of Relational Influence in Emma” by Kathleen Anderson.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Summer 2000).
• “Two Queries Concerning Emma: Did Jane Austen forget Mr. Knightley? Who wrote Frank Churchill’s ‘handsome letter’?” by Joan Austen-Leigh.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 54-57.
• “Jane Austen’s Use of Frank Churchill’s Letters in Emma” by Patricia Davis.  Persuasions 10 (1988): 34-38.
   

Highbury Society

• “The ‘Great Talker’: Spinster Stereotypes in Emma” by Corrie L. Jacobs.  Graduate Essay Contest Winner (2015).
• “Eyeing Mrs. Elton: Learning Through Pastiche” by Diana Birchall.  Persuasions On-Line 30.2 (Spring 2010).
• “‘A Nervous Man, Easily Depressed’: What Is Wrong with Mr. Woodhouse?” by Nicola Cummins.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “Mr. Woodhouse is not a Hypochondriac!” by Ted Bader.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Summer 2000).
• In Defense of Mrs. Elton by Diana Birchall.  Published for the 1999 AGM in Colorado Springs.
• “That Excellent Miss Bates” by Katharine Kittredge.  Persuasions 17 (1995): 26-30.
• “Mrs. Elton and the Slave Trade” by Mary DeForest.  Persuasions 9 (1987): 11-12.
• “Do You Not Dance, Mr. Elton?” by Mary Millard.  Persuasions 5 (1983): 14.
  
  

Money, Manners, Language

• “The Anxiety of Emma” by Janet Todd.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 15-25.
• “Emma: The Geography of a Mind” by Juliet McMaster.  Persuasions 29 (2007): 26-38.
• “‘I am Rather a Talker’: Speech and Silence in Emma” by June Sturrock.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “Reading Elegant Extracts in Emma: Very Entertaining!” by Susan Allen Ford.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “‘The Value of a Good Income’: Money in Emma” by Sheryl Bonar Craig.  Persuasions On-Line 22.1 (Winter 2001).
• “The Civility of Emma” by Joseph Wiesenfarth.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 8-23.
• “The Secret Languages of Emma” by Juliet McMaster.  Persuasions 13 (1991): 119-31.
  
  

Emma Adapted

• “Bollywoodizing Jane Austen’s Emma: Rajshree Ojha’s Aisha” by Rosa M. Garcia-Periago.  Persuasions On-Line 34.1 (Winter 2013).
• “Aisha, Rajshree Ojha’s Urban Emma: Not Entirely Clueless” by Theresa Kenney.  Persuasions On-Line 32.1 (Winter 2011).
• “Adapting Emma for the Twenty-first Century: An Emma No One Will Like” by Laurie Kaplan.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).
• “An Invitation to the Dance and a Proposal of Marriage: Jane Austen’s Emma and Two Film Adaptations” by Nora Foster Stovel.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “Emma on Film” is the subject of a special edition of JASNA’s journal Persuasions On-Line Occasional Papers No. 3.  The essays provide in-depth discussions of film adaptations of the novel.