Massachusetts Region: Austen Austenato
Sep 8
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Austen Austenato: Music in Emma
Join the Massachusetts Region for a musical afternoon in celebration of the music in Emma.
The symmetry and shapeliness of Austen’s novels owes something to her love of music and her appreciation of its formal structures. Every morning, she tuned her mind by playing the piano. As with everything she wrote about, she used the expressivity of music to reveal aspects of the moral character, psychological dimensions, and social position of the people she wrote about. This is perhaps especially true in Emma.
Ruth Perry is past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a founder of the Boston Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies, and founding director of the Women’s Studies program at MIT, where she is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities, Emeritus. Her most recent book, to be published at the end of this year by Oxford University Press, is The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, about an 18th century Scotswoman who is the source of many fine ballads.
The event is open to JASNA members for $10 and nonmembers for $15.
