Jane Austen Handbook: A new edition of ‘The Jane Austen Handbook’ – chicagotribune.com

No doubt many of those attending the current production of Jane Austen‘s Sense & Sensibility at Northlight Theatre in Skokie are devoted fans of Austen’s genteel novels. They likely already know the story of the Dashwood sisters’ adventures in romance, and have trouble understanding the language and behavior that unfurl onstage. But just as surely, [...]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, were both New York Times best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After. The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and [...]

Google UK Honor’s Jane Austen’s Birthday

Google UK honored the British novelist Jane Austen today with an illustrated logo on the splash page for its UK site. Austen, born 235 years go today on December 16, wrote predominately about class and women in society, and has recently been met with a resurgence of young fandom online. The illustration by Google features [...]

Are You Sure They Are All Horrid? Austen’s Degrees of Disagreeability

Day 30: Thirty days of Austen Jane Austen Birthday Tea December 4, 2010 Talk by Michaelangelo Allocca, Chair of the Basic Program at the Graham School, University of Chicago. Membership required, Jane Austen Society of North America – Greater Chicago Region. Afternoon tea at The Fortnightly of Chicago, 120 E. Bellevue Place, Chicago. 2–4 p.m. [...]

“Monsters and Monstrosity”: Desire and Corporeality in Jane Austen’s Novels 11/5/2010 Lecture

Day 20: 30 days of Austen Elisabeth Lenckos, Basic Program instructor, the University of Chicago Terrifying specters haunt the once luminous corridors of Austen’s great houses. We marvel at their intrusion, but would she have been surprised? Austen lived in the Age of Gothic Romance, and her novels are its heirs. The body, its needs [...]

Jane Austen and the Body: Chicago Humanities Festival

Day 1: Thirty days of Austen Jane Austen and the Body This program is presented in partnership with the Jane Austen Society of North America / Greater Chicago Region. Two Jane Austen aficionados join forces to plumb the many themes, undercurrents, and references to the body in Austen’s novels. Medical doctor Cheryl Kinney diagnoses “Austen-itis” [...]

Jane Austen’s Tea

Day 29: Thirty days of Austen Among Jane Austen’s many attractions for the modern reader are the comfortable domestic details that furnish her novels, and what could be more comforting than tea? Tea was not just a beverage in Austen’s time, but a key ingredient in social ritual, and her letters and novels are full [...]

Jane Austen’s The History of England

Day 28: Thirty days of Austen The History of England is an early work of Jane Austen. She completed the composition in November 1791 when she was just 15 years old. Jane Austen’s History is a lively parody which makes fun of the standard schoolroom books of the time, in particular Oliver Goldsmith’s popular four-volume [...]

Reassessing the Regency: Elegance, Excess, and Revolutions in England, 1811-20, Exhibition – April 23–August 1, 2011

Day 27: Thirty days of Austen Regency England (the period between 1811 and 1820, when George III was deemed unfit and his son ruled as prince regent) generally brings to mind Jane Austen’s world of elegant country house parties and mannered village society, or the extravagant, licentious activities of the prince regent and his aristocratic [...]

The World on a Two-Inch Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen Writes to Her Sister

Day 26: Thirty days of Austen No English writer could supply trifles with more vivid spontaneity than Jane Austen. Her masterpieces — the six finished novels, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion — work on a small scale; she spoke of them as paintings on “a little bit [...]

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