Persuasions Number 23

No. 23, 2001

CONTENTS

Annual General Meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America	6
Message from the President Joan Klingel Ray	7-9
Editor’s Note Laurie Kaplan	10-11
AGM 2001 SEATTLE: ENTERTAINMENT AND JANE AUSTEN
Games and Play in Jane Austen’s Literary Structures DAVID SELWYN	15-28
“Every Savage Can Dance”: Choreographing Courtship NORA STOVEL	29-49
Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World JEFFREY A. NIGRO	50-62
Jane Austen and the Pleasure-Principle BRUCE STOVEL	63-77
“He to Defend, I to Punish”: Silence and the Duel in Sense and Sensibility VINCE BREWTON	78-89
Reading Body Language: A Game of Skill JULIET MCMASTER	90-104
“I Burn with Contempt for my Foes”: Jane Austen’s Music Collections and Women’s Lives in Regency England MOLLIE SANDOCK	105-117
Gossip as Pleasure, Pursuit, Power, and Plot Device in Jane Austen’s Novels ELAINE BANDER	118-129
THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY
“Hurrying into the Shrubbery”: The Sublime, Transcendence, and the Garden Scene in Emma DAVID C. MACWILLIAMS	133-138
Following Footpaths in Emma: Actual and Metaphorical JULIA PARK	139-147
From “Four White Cows Disposed at Equal Distances” to the “Fine, Shady Bower”: Importance of Place in the Juvenilia BARBARA BRITTON WENNER	148-153
“I Prefer Walking”: Jane Austen and the Pleasantest Part of the Day SALLY B. PALMER	154-165
“What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?”: Jane Austen’s Use of Bath in Persuasion KEIKO PARKER	166-176
MISCELLANY
Mrs. Bennet’s Least Favorite Daughter JOHN WILTSHIRE	179-187
The Last Pages of Emma: Jane Austen’s Epithalamium SARAH EMSLEY	188-196
Mansfield Park and the Question of Irony JUDITH BURDAN	197-204
Jane Austen and the Reconsigned Child: The True Identity of Fanny Price KAY TOURNEY SOUTER	205-214
What’s in a Name? Persuasion and the Puzzle of Poor Richard ELIZABETH KOSMETATOU	215-218
Arrows (and Arrowroot) in Jane Austen’s Emma JOHN K. HALE	219-221
Jane Austen, Works and Studies 2000 BARRY ROTH	222-228
Jane Austen Society of North America Board of Directors	229-231

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