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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Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2021 Essay Contest

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Marianne Dashwood’s Repentance, Willoughby’s “Repentance,” and The Book of Common Prayer

For the First Time in Forever: Sense and Sensibility and Frozen

Rectifying an Ignorance of the World: The Critique of Social Silence in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Interpretive Ekphrasis and the Marital Marketplace: Elinor’s Drawings in Sense and Sensibility

“A More Gentle, Less Dignified, Forgiveness”: Willoughby’s Apology in the Context of Austen’s Religious Beliefs

“The Old, Well Established Grievance”: Generational Conflict in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

Dressing Jane Austen: The Development of Period Costume Design in Film

Goodness Without Beauty: Mrs. Jennings as a Hidden Mother Figure in Sense and Sensibility

Staging Flirtation at the Pianoforte in Sense and Sensibility and Emma

Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

The Three Mothers of Elinor Dashwood: The Bewitching Ideals of Motherhood in Sense and Sensibility

Hammond’s Illustrated Vision of Sense and Sensibility

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