2012 AGM Reading List

Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen's Fiction

This curated sampling of essays from Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line was prepared for the 2012 JASNA AGM, “Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen’s Fiction,” held in Brooklyn, New York.


Sex

• “Marianne’s Addiction: Amorous Pleasures in Sense and Sensibility” by Kimiyo Ogawa.  Persuasions On-Line 32.2 (Summer 2012).
• “The Rushworths of Wimpole Street” by Laurie Kaplan.  Persuasions 33 (2011): 202-14.
• “The Sibling Ideal in Jane Austen’s Novels: When Near Incest Really is Best” by Celia A. Easton.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).
• “The One-Sided Romance of Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy” by Joan Klingel Ray.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “Sex and the Scullery: The New Pride & Prejudice” by Jen Camden.  Persuasions On-Line 27.2 (Summer 2007).
• “The Offending Pig: Determinism in the Focus Features Pride & Prejudice” by Kathleen Anderson.  Persuasions On-Line 27.2 (Summer 2007).
• “Sex, Debility, and Lady Bertram: Lover or Loafer?” by Pauline Beard.  Persuasions On-Line 27.1 (Winter, 2006).
• “Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy: Stories” by Linda Robinson Walker.  Persuasions On-Line 27.1 (Winter 2006).
• “Dance, Physicality, and Social Mobility in Jane Austen’s Persuasion” by Cheryl A. Wilson.  Persuasions 25 (2003): 55-75.
• “Pierce Egan’s Life in London, or Is This What Jane’s Gentlemen Were Up To When Their Author Wasn’t Looking?” by Joan Freilich.  Persuasions 24 (2002): 121-32.
• “Jane Austen and Adultery” by Susannah Fullerton.  Persuasions 24 (2002): 143-63.
• “On Pettiness and Petticoats: The Significance of the Petticoat in Pride and Prejudice” by Efrat Margalit.  Persuasions On-Line 23.1 (Winter 2002).
• “Laughing at Mr. Darcy: Wit and Sexuality in Pride and Prejudice” by Elvira Casal.  Persuasions On-Line 22.1 (Winter, 2001).
• “‘He to defend: I to punish’: Silence and the Duel in Sense and Sensibility” by Vince Brewton.  Persuasions 23 (2001):78-89.
• “Mrs. Bennet’s Least Favorite Daughter” by John Wiltshire.  Persuasions 23 (2001): 179-87.
• "Sleeping with Mr. Collins” by Ruth Perry.  Persuasions 22 (2000): 119-35.
• “Unlocking the Rape: An Analysis of Austen’s Use of Pope’s Symbolism in Sense and Sensibility” by Catherine Bristow.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 31-37.
• “Catherine’s Real and Imagined Fears: What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles” by Eleanor Ty.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 248-60.
• “Power Houses and Polite Fiction” by Nicholas Preus.  Persuasions 17 (1995): 167-74.

• “‘Wealth has much to do with it’: The Economics of Sense and Sensibility” by Sheryl Craig.  Persuasions 33 (2011): 13-28.
• “Northanger Abbey: Money in the Bank” by Sheryl Craig.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 144-53.
• “The Pemberley Effect: Austen’s Legacy to the Historic House Industry” by Sarah Parry.  Persuasions 30 (2008): 113-22.
• “Pimp My Austen: The Commodification and Customization of Jane Austen” by Brandy Foster.  Persuasions On-Line 29.1 (Winter 2008).
• “Caught Between Old and New: The Changing Face of Marriage in Austen and Tanizaki” by Aya Satoh.  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (Spring 2008).
• “Trinkets and Treasures: Consuming Jane Austen” by Allison Thompson.  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (Spring 2008).
• “Money, Morals, and Mansfield Park: The West Indies Revisited” by June Sturrock.  Persuasions 28 (2006): 176-84.
• “‘The Value of a Good Income’: Money in Emma” by Sheryl Bonar Craig.  Persuasions On-Line 22.1 (Winter 2001).
• “‘Willy-Nilly’ and Other Tales of Male-Tails: Rightful and Wrongful Laws of Landed Property in Northanger Abbey and Beyond” by Deirdre E. Gilbert.  Persuasions On-Line 20.1 (Summer 1999).
• “Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen & Co., 1801-1816” by Clive Caplan.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 69-90.
• “Consuming Modes in Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Economic View of Literary Nationalism” by Robert Merrett.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 222-35.
• “General Tilney and the Milsom Street Merchants-Brothers Under the Skin?” by Joan R. Vredenburgh.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 42-45.
• “Persuasion: The Jane Austen Consumer’s Guide” by Edward Copeland.  Persuasions 15 (1993): 111-23.
• “How Wealthy is Mr. Darcy – Really?: Pounds and Dollars in the World of Pride and Prejudice” by James Heldman.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 38-49.
• “Austen, Forster, and Economics” by Shelly Dorsey.  Persuasions 12 (1990):54-59.
  
  

Power

• “Playing with Genesis: Sonship, Liberty, and Primogeniture in Sense and Sensibility” by Joyce Kerr Tarpley.  Persuasions 33 (2011): 89-102.
• “Northanger Abbey, French Fiction, and the Affecting History of the Duchess of C***” by Gillian Dow.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 28-45.
• “‘Let me go, Mr. Thorpe; Isabella, do not hold me!’: Northanger Abbey and the Domestic Gothic.” by Miriam Rheingold Fuller.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 90-104.
• “Jane Austen’s Miniature ‘Novel’: Gender, Politics, and Form in The Beautifull Cassandra” by John C. Leffel.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 184-95.
• “John Thorpe, Villain Ordinaire: The Modern Montoni/Schedoni” by Nancy Yee.  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (Winter 2010).
• “Ambiguous Cousinship: Mansfield Park and the Mansfield Family” by Christine Kenyon Jones.  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (Winter 2010).
• “Jane Austen’s Emma and Empire: A Postcolonial View” by Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara.  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (Winter 2004).
• “Speaking of Silence: Speech and Silence as a Subversive Means of Power in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” by Michal Beth Dinkler.  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (Winter 2004).
• “Romance, Pedagogy and Power: Jane Austen Re-writes Madame de Genlis” by Susan Allen Ford.  Persuasions 21 (1999): 172-88.
• “The Case of the Petulant Patriarch” by Kenneth W. Graham.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 119-34.
• “Parents against Children: General Tilney as Gothic Monster” by John Dussinger.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 165-74.
• “Jane Austen’s Case Study of Child Abuse: Fanny Price” by Joan Ray.  Persuasions 13 (1991): 16-26.

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