The fifth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail explores Austen’s view of writing through the pages of Northanger Abbey.
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In the third episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her politics and views on slavery, as we dive into the pages of Mansfield Park.
In the second episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her views on love, and the role of romance in Pride & Prejudice.
In the first episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, a new podcast marking 250 years since the author’s birth, we speak to Austen experts about her relationship with gossip.
In many of Austen’s novels, going out in the rain meant risking illness or death. Was this really the case?
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
Our new podcast series tries to discover the real Jane Austen by delving deeper into her life, times and novels.
Jane Austen’s interconnected webs of thought and feeling help readers to better understand other people.
While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her ultimate novel, but the winner is down to you.
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
Jane Austen’s novels work a romantic alchemy, and travel is their catalyst.
The winner is down to you!
All of Austen’s leading men are rich, which certainly helps to intensify their charms. But that’s not everything.
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
Like the confines of a mining ship in deep space, the plot of an Austen novel is less small than it is dense and claustrophobic.
We’ve had Jane Austen biopics, biographies, screen adaptations galore. Now, her life story is told graphically, with both invented dialogue and glossary of sources.
Razor-sharp satires of social and gendered inequalities, Austen’s novels are full of witty observations and universally relatable experiences.
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD in English Literature, University of Cumbria
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Reader in Romanticisms, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Associate in English, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling
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Visiting Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University
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Professor of English Literature, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow, English literature, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London