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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Emma’s “Serious Spirit”: How Miss Woodhouse Faces the Issues Raised in Mansfield Park and Becomes Jane Austen’s Most Complex Heroine

“Small, Trifling Presents”: Giving and Receiving in Emma

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

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

Oysters and Alderneys: Emma and the Animal Economy

Mistresses of Music: The Pianoforte and Social Mobility in Jane Austen’s Novels

Epistolary Culture in Emma: Secrets and Social Transgressions

Jane Austen: Gothic Novelist?

The Master Manipulator: Jane Austen’s Use of Portrait Drawing in Emma

Divas in the Drawing Room, or Italian Opera Comes to Highbury

The Myth of the Accomplished Woman: The Arts in Austen’s Novels

Privacy and Impertinence: Talking about Servants in Austen

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