No. 27, 2005
CONTENTS
| Annual General Meetings of the Jane Austen Society of North America | 6 |
| Message from the President
Joan Klingel Ray |
7 |
| Editor’s Note
Laurie Kaplan |
9-10 |
AGM 2005 MILWAUKEE: JANE AUSTEN'S LETTERS IN FACT AND FICTION |
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“The Whinnying of Harpies?”: Humor in Jane Austen’s Letters (full text available, requires Adobe Acrobat) JAN FERGUS |
13-30 |
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Searching for Jane Austen: Restoring the “Fleas” and “Bad Breath” (full text available, requires Adobe Acrobat) EMILY AUERBACH |
31-38 |
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Fun and Speculation: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice as Revisions DEBORAH J. KNUTH KLENCK |
39-53 |
| Lady Susan: A Re-evaluation of Jane Austen’s Epistolary Novel CHRISTINE ALEXANDER, DAVID OWEN |
54-68 |
| Fragment and Focus: Jane Austen and the Art of the Blazons SUSAN E. JONES |
69-74 |
| The Jane Austen Diet: The Weight of Women in Austen’s Letters KATHLEEN ANDERSON |
75-87 |
| The Epistolary Passions of Sympathy: Feeling Letters in Persuasion and Burney’s The Wanderer CHRISTOPHER NAGLE |
88-98 |
| Letters and their Role in Revealing Class and Personal Identity in Pride and Prejudice JODI A. DEVINE |
99-111 |
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James Stanier Clarke’s Portrait of Jane Austen (full text available, requires Adobe Acrobat) JOAN KLINGEL RAY, RICHARD JAMES WHEELER |
112-118 |
| Jane Austen’s Letters: Facts and Fictions ELAINE BANDER |
119-129 |
| Following the Trail of Jane Austen’s Letters BARBARA BRITTON WENNER |
130-141 |
| Jane Austen and “A Society of Sickness” AKIKO TAKEI |
142-151 |
| Mr. Darcy’s Letter - A Figure in the Dance MARY BASSON |
152-162 |
| Austen and the Admiral: Commemorating the Bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 ELSIE G. HOLZWARTH |
163-172 |
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MISCELLANY |
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Incarnating Jane Austen: The Role of Sound in the Recent Film Adaptations (full text available, requires Adobe Acrobat) ADRIANE HUDELET |
175-184 |
| “A Great Passion for Taking Likenesses”: The Woman Painter in Emma ANTONIA LOSANO |
185-194 |
| Anne Elliot Bound Up in Northanger Abbey: The History of the Joint Publication of Jane Austen’s First and Last Complete Novels JONATHAN GROSSMAN |
195-207 |
| Reading and Teaching Our Way Out of Jane Austen’s Novels (Naval Options) ROBERT G. DRYDEN |
208-218 |
| Calamity Jane? Austen and Owen Wister’s The Virginian MARILYN FRANCUS |
219-233 |
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The Probable Location of Longbourn in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (full text available, requires Adobe Acrobat) KENNETH SMITH |
234-241 |
| “The Redemption of the World”: The Rhetoric of Jane Austen’s Prayers LAURA DABUNDO |
242-252 |
| Fanny Price and the (Dis)comforts of Home AMANDA HIMES |
253-259 |
| Re-Pairing Jane Austen MATTHEW MELKO |
260-262 |
| “Slyness Seems the Fashion”: Dexterous Revelations in Pride and Prejudice THERESA KENNEY |
263-269 |
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