Publications

JASNA publications offer essays, entertainment, and news of interest to Austen fans.

JASNA’s peer-reviewed journals, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line, are leading sources for Austen studies.
JASNA News reports on Austen-related events, programs, and books.
Book reviews from the newsletter are collected on this site and available to all.
Our Jane Austen Bibliography is published annually as a freely accessible resource for the Austen community.
Publications created for Annual General Meetings provide entertaining perspectives and are shared here.
Winning essays from JASNA’s student essay contest are published on this site in recognition of their high caliber.

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Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2021 Essay Contest

Winning Entries

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The Lost Copies of Northanger Abbey

“Everything They Ought to Be”: Conduct Literature in Northanger Abbey

Prescriptive or Descriptive?: Redeeming the Novel in Northanger Abbey

The ABCs of Northanger Abbey: Advertisements, Backstories, and Classifications

Reading the World: Beneath the Surface of Books and People in Northanger Abbey

A Hierarchy of Feminine Readers: Educating the Quixote and “Writing” the Authentic Woman

Tensions at the Table: Dining-Room Dynamics in Abbeys and Castles

The Art(s) of the Coquette: Dramatizing the Duplicitous in Lady Susan and Northanger Abbey

The Implicit Dramas of Northanger Abbey

Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

More than Just a “Good Read”: Literature and Character in Austen’s Novels

Her Dark Materials: The Gothic Novel as Socio-Political Critique in Northanger Abbey

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