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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Marvelous Miss Morland

Jane Austen, Netley Abbey, and Gothic Tourism

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

Northanger Abbey, Gothic Parody, and the History of the Fictional Female Detective

Mere Information and True Knowledge: Jane Austen on Books

Churches, Chapels, Abbeys, and Cathedrals in Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen: Gothic Novelist?

A Curious Absence of Books: Education in Northanger Abbey

Modernity and Antiquity in Northanger Abbey

“Real Solemn History” and Cassandra Leigh Cooke’s Battleridge

“Was There a Servant . . . Who Did Not Know the Whole Story before the End of the Day?” Upside-down Points of View in Austen

“Those Quotations Which Are So Serviceable”: Decoding Context and Reading Literary Collection in Northanger Abbey

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