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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The Cottage as Metaphor: Perspectives on Marianne Dashwood’s Improvement

Elinor and Emma: Artistic Vision and Social Standing of Two Jane Austen Heroines

Multiple Authors: The Making of Sense & Sensibility (BBC, 2007)

Growing into Love: A Comparison of Adolescent Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

Marriage and Marriageability: A Linguistic Study of Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Jennings

Lady Susan: The Coquette, Machiavellian, and Villain of Jane Austen’s Novels

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

Judgment and Feelings: Sense and Sensibility’s Journey to the Spanish-Speaking World

“Within Four Miles Northward of Exeter”: Landscapes of the Mind and Map in Sense and Sensibility

Christian Ethics in the Dashwood Family: An Exploration of the Effects of Elinor’s Prudence on Marianne

Jane Austen: Gothic Novelist?

John Dashwood and Edward Ferrars: Duty, Affection and Brotherhood

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