Mansfield Park is a Tragedy, Not a Comedy
I’m really excited about discussing Mansfield Park with all of you this year – so excited that I can’t wait …
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At Frigate to Utopia, a discussion of my book Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues
Lit-Lass is reading my book Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues and writing about it at Frigate to Utopia. She likes …
“He made the intellectual life fun”: Honouring C.Q. Drummond
By lamp or morning light, Bent close over the page, You heard the language right, No matter from what age. …
Happy 10th Anniversary to The New Compass!
Ten years ago today, the first issue of the online literary journal I co-founded and co-edited with my friend and …
Happy 100th Anniversary to Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country!
January 2013 marks 100 years since the first installment of Edith Wharton’s “Big Novel” The Custom of the Country was …
My interview on CBC Radio’s Mainstreet
In addition to celebrating 200 years of Pride and Prejudice by rereading the novel, writing about it, and discussing it …
Celebrate Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with us in Halifax!
If you love Pride and Prejudice and you live in Nova Scotia, please consider joining JASNA Nova Scotia for our …
Jane Austen on Sex, Money, and Power
Several essays from this year’s fabulous JASNA AGM in New York (“Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen’s Fiction”) are …
Mansfield Park and Power
One of my favourite sessions at the JASNA AGM in Brooklyn last weekend was Marcia McClintock Folsom’s talk about “Power …
“The books were too valuable to be taken down”
I had so much fun during the discussion that followed my paper on Austen and Wharton at the JASNA AGM …
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