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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.
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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: Fragment Artist

Persuasions On-Line

Volume 38 No. 2

Spring 2018

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Love, Convenience, and the Pursuit of Happiness for Austen’s Spinsters

“She Had Only Navy-Lists and Newspapers for Her Authority”

Missing Masters: The Absence of Male Heirs and the Fracturing of Female Desire in Jane Austen’s Novels

The Final Chapters of Persuasion: Austen’s Passionate Revision

Jane Austen: Fragment Artist

Characterized by Violence: On Goodness and the Profits of Slavery in Persuasion

Self-Delusion and Agitation in Persuasion

The Ledger of Character: Credit, Debt, and Masculine Identity in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

Plans of Economy in Persuasion

“Pretty Fairly Divided Between the Sexes”: Jane Austen on Gender

The Tyranny of Tenderness: Mr. Woodhouse and Sir Walter Elliot as Austen’s Most Dangerous Men

“A New Set of Opinions and of Hopes”: Lady Russell’s Education

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