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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Austen’s Aberration: The Unconventional Character of Lady Susan

The “Artful” Lady Susan: Austen’s Most Powerful Female Villain

Seduction and Seducers in English Spa Towns: Jane Austen’s Opportunity of Place

Sirens of Society: The Seduction of Moral Men by Austen’s Female Villains

Faith Words in Sense and Sensibility: A Story of Selfishness and Self-Denial

Northanger before the Tilneys: Austen’s Abbey and the Religious Past

“Rotatory Motion”: The “Circle” and Human Flourishing in Sanditon

Using Sympathetic Imagination to Live Morally: Jane Austen’s Expansion of Adam Smith

Aristotelian Ethical Ideas in the Novels of Jane Austen

“With What Intense Desire She Wants Her Home”: Jane Austen on Home as Telos

“His Thoughtless Vanity”: The Comic Flaw in Austen’s Errant Heroes

“Her Future Sunshine”: The Blossoming of Faith, Hope, and Charity in the Life of Anne Elliot

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