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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Like Aunt, Like Niece: Generational Patterns of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

In Defense of Inconstancy: The Rewards of “Second Attachments” in Persuasion

“Her happiness was from within”: Courtship and the Interior World in Persuasion

“What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains?” Examining Environment in the Proposals and Courtships of Pride and Prejudice

“In the Quest For Some Amusement”: The Role of Card Games, Dancing, and Walks as Precursors, Metaphors, and Measurements of Compatibility in Pride and Prejudice

To Be “Esteemed Quite Worthy”: Fortunes, Futures, and Economic Language in Persuasion

Entail, Elopement, and Marriage Law in Pride and Prejudice

“The Bells Rang and Every Body Smiled”: Jane Austen’s “Courtship Novels”

Courtship and Financial Interest in Northanger Abbey

Cousins in Love, Etc.: Unspeakable Desire and Transgressive Endogamy in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

More Distinguished in His Domestic Virtues: Captain Wentworth Comes Home

Elizabeth Bennet’s Proposal Scenes and Nonconsensual Consent

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