Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
The power of Austen’s work in Persuasion reveals itself to us in adulthood, says critic and author Bidisha 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
The 200th anniversary of Mansfield Park and the 100th anniversary of the debate about Austen’s feminism.
|
Scoop.it!
The professor of English tells us about the joy of rereading Austen and the hidden layers of complexity that emerge from the writing when one does so. She chooses the best Jane Austen books.
bobbygw's curator insight,
June 15, 2017 7:41 AM
Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. She is a leading critic of 18th century English literature and has served as president of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association. Her annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in 2010 and On Rereading, a record of a year-long project of re-visiting different novels, was published in 2011.
|
