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Persuasions On-Line & Me

JASNA has published its new edition of Persuasions On-Line [Volume 30, No. 1 Winter 2009] – and one of the articles is mine!

Table of Contents: from the 2009 AGM on Jane Austen’s Brothers and Sisters

• Brotherly Love in Eighteenth-Century Literature Ruth Perry
• The City of Sisterly Love: Jane Austen’s Community as Sorority Laura S. Dabundo
• “Not half so handsome as Jane”: Sisters, Brothers, and Beauty in the Novels of Jane Austen Stephanie M. Eddleman
• “You Must be a Great Comfort to Your Sister, Sir”: Why Good Brothers Make Good Husbands Deborah Knuth Klenck
• The Sibling Ideal in Jane Austen’s Novels: When Near Incest Really is Best Celia A. Easton
• Sororadelphia, or “even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal” James Thompson
• Inherited and Living Variables: The Choices of Sisters and Brothers inMansfield Park Marcia McClintock Folsom
• The Closeness of Sisters: Imagining Cassandra and Jane Juliette Wells
• Hazel Holt’s My Dear Charlotte: A Novel Based on Jane Austen’s LettersJan Fergus
• Handwriting in the Time of Jane Austen Robert Hurford

Miscellany:

• Willoughby’s Apology C. Durning Carroll
• Darcy’s Ardent Love and Resentful Temper in Pride and Prejudice Horace Jeffery Hodges
• Pemberley’s Welcome, or An Historical Conjecture Upon Elizabeth Darcy’s Wedding Journey Kelly M. McDonald
• Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Sarah S. G. Frantz
• Going from Extremes: Mansfield Park as a Revision of Clarissa Kathleen E. Urda
• “Mr. Cole is Very Bilious”: The Art of Lay Medicine in Jane Austen’s Characters Akiko Takei
• Scott’s “tenderest, noblest and best” in his Review of Emma Joan Klingel Ray
• Adapting Emma for the Twenty-first Century: An Emma No One Will Like Laurie Kaplan
• Queer Temporality, Spatiality, and Memory in Jane Austen’s Persuasion Edward Kozaczka