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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Jane Austen’s Emma: An Education in Empathy

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2016 Essay Contest

Winning Entries

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Jane Austen’s Emma: An Education in Empathy

Mere Information and True Knowledge: Jane Austen on Books

‘The Vehicle for Gallantry and Trick’: Educating Emma’s Readers

A Curious Absence of Books: Education in Northanger Abbey

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters in Sense and Sensibility

“Those Quotations Which Are So Serviceable”: Decoding Context and Reading Literary Collection in Northanger Abbey

Fair Lady and Humble Knight: Chivalric Education in Emma

Becoming Good Readers: Sympathy and Teachability in Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility

“Don’t Know Much about History”: History and Histrionics, Moderation and Passion in Northanger Abbey

The (Mis)Education of Harriet Smith: Confidence, Perception, and Character Development in Emma

Eleanor Tilney as Cultural Historian

Theatre and Theatricality; Or, Jane Austen and Learning the Art of Dialogue

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