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  DEVONEY LOOSER

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Further Reading and Links From Devoney

5/19/2021

 
Selected Bibliography from Devoney Looser’s “Jane Austen’s Family, Slavery, and Anti-Slavery” lecture, with Jane Austen & Co. "Race and the Regency" lecture series (18 May 2021)
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Read the essay and listen to the interview: Devoney Looser in the Times Literary Supplement:
“Breaking the Silence: The Austen Family’s Complex Entanglements with Slavery,” TLS (21 May 2021) pp. 2-3. 
and TLS Podcast Interview. 
 
Recommended Readings
 

Anonymous. The Woman of Colour: A Tale. Ed. Lyndon J. Dominique. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2007. [Originally published 1808]
Dominque, Lyndon J. Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Black London: Life Before Emancipation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Available for free download: https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/publishing/books/gerzina1995/
White, Gabrielle V. Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: 'a fling at the slave trade.’ New York: Palgrave, 2005.
 
Deep Dives into George Austen, James Langford Nibbs, and Morris Robinson
 
Coulombeau, Sophie. “’Fill up His Blanks’: Making Matthew Montagu,” [Morris Robinson information], Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4 (Winter 2018): 537-71.
Gibbon, Frank. “The Antiguan Connection: Some New Light on ‘Mansfield Park,’” The Cambridge Quarterly. Vol. 11, No. 2 (1982): 298-305.
Perry, Ruth. “Jane Austen and British Imperialism,” Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment. Ed. Mita Choudhury. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2002, pp. 231-254.
Southam, Brian. “The Silence of the Bertrams: Slavery and the Chronology of Mansfield Park,” Times Literary Supplement (17 February 1995): 13-14.
 
Free Access Websites/Videos for Further Exploration/Research
 
Akin to Jane: https://www.janeaustensfamily.co.uk/akin-to-jane/akin-to-jane.index.html
British Fiction, 1800-29. http://www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk/
Legacies of British Slavery: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
National Portrait Gallery, for Benjamin Robert Haydon painting, “The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840.” https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00028/The-Anti-Slavery-Society-Convention-1840
Virtual  JaneCon 2021 Playlist (on YouTube): www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMwGZNvZFhh66CjTAN0l0ntVV4ldLrJXQ
 
Austen Criticism and Austen Family Biographies Mentioned
 
Baugh, Victoria. “Mixed-Race Heiresses and Early Nineteenth-Century Literature: Sanditon’s Miss Lambe in Context,” European Romantic Review. Vol. 29, No. 4 (2018): 449-458.
Chander, Manu Samriti and Patricia A. Matthew, “Abolitionist Interruptions: Romanticism, Slavery, and Genre,” European Romantic Review, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2018): 431-434.
Clery, E. J. Jane Austen: The Banker’s Sister. London: Biteback Publishing, 2017.
Hubback, J. H. and Edith C. Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers: Being the Adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B. Admiral of the Fleet, and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. London: John Lane, 1906.
Kindred, Sheila Johnson. Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017.
Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen's Family Through Five Generations. London; Robert Hale, 1984.
LeFaye, Deirdre, ed. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family, 1600–2000. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Slothouber, Linda. Jane Austen, Edward Knight, & Chawton: Commerce & Community. Gaithersburg, MD: Woodpigeon Publishing, 2015.
 
Devoney Looser’s Mentioned Recent Work on Austen and the Austen Family
 
The Great Courses: The Life and Works of Jane Austen (24 30-minute lectures, The Teaching Company, 2021). (720 min.) 
The Making of Jane Austen. Johns Hopkins UP, 2017. 304 pages. Paperback, 2019 (with new afterword).  
“Fame in the Family: Jane Austen’s Political Legacy,” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. 133 (Summer 2018): 7–23. DOI 10.1353/vct.2018.0002
“Pride and Prostitutes” (co-authored with Ruth Knezevich), Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine 76 (Jul/Aug 2015), pp. 23-30.
“Jane Austen’s Afterlife, West Indian Madams, and the Literary Porter Family: Two New Letters from Charles Austen” (with Ruth Knezevich), Modern Philology, vol. 112, no. 3 (2015), pp. 554–568.
(Full CV here: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/284225/cv )
 
Ways to Stay Connected to Devoney

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Upcoming Lecture on Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Austen Family

5/13/2021

 
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I will be presenting the final talk in Jane Austen & Co.'s "Race and the Regency" series on Zoom on Tuesday 5/18 at 5 p.m. EST. Registration is required for "Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Austen Family." Hope to see you there to talk about this important subject, which has been so much in the news in recent weeks.

Virtual Jane Con Lives On!

5/3/2021

 
Does it have to be over? No! The full program playlist from this past weekend's Virtual JaneCon is now up, including my first attempt at YouTube Live. It's no picture of perfection, but it was great fun! With thanks to Bianca Hernandez-Knight for her vision and labor in year two of this fabulous online event. Sign up for info about future Virtual JaneCons here. 
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Virtual Jane Con, May 1-2, 2021, on YouTube

4/30/2021

 
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I'm looking forward to participating in Virtual Jane Con this weekend! I'll be up on Saturday 5/1 at 3 ET / noon PT. Check out the amazing program, and hope to see you on YouTube?
#VirtualJaneCon #JaneAusten #Books #Literature #Women #Feminism

Rusty Parts and  A REturn to Roller Derby

3/16/2021

 
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I had the chance recently to write about my experiences of being away from, and working to get rolling again, in the sport of banked-track roller derby. Thanks to Global Sports Matters and to ASU's Global Sport Institute for making me a part of this special issue on "The Power of Women & Girls in Sport."

Live Chat (Now available ANYTIME) on Great Courses Jane Austen

3/9/2021

 
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ICYMI: Last week's live chat conversation about the new Great Courses Jane Austen lessons (DVD, streaming, and Audible) is now available for anytime watching. Thumbs up or thumbs down, I'm still feeling lucky that this counts as work. Thanks to those of you who were able to join us then, and if you watch it now, let me know what you think? 

Creating your public scholarly identity: A Workshop

2/26/2021

 
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Join me on Friday March 5th to talk about creating your public scholarly identity. This workshop is primarily geared toward ASU graduate students but is open to a limited number of interested others, with registration. Register here. I look forward to seeing you!

Regents Professor & Giving Thanks

2/14/2021

 
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 Ever tried to show your gratitude in three minutes to those who shaped your intellectual development? I tried! I had the chance this week to recognize formative teachers, as well as the places that educated me: White Bear Lake Public Schools, Hill Murray School, Augsburg University, and Stony Brook University. It was part of a virtual installation ceremony at ASU, at which I was named a Regents Professor. I'm so grateful to ASU for this honor and for videotaping it so that I could share it with friends and family, near and far. I look forward to continuing to work with Sun Devils, Arizonans, and colleagues and students to add to our knowledge and work to fix things that are broken.


The Great Courses on Jane Austen Are Here!

2/4/2021

 
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Here's a frank, open-hearted confession: I'm excited about this! The Great Courses on Jane Austen has just launched, with 24 30-minute lessons on life and works, via DVD video, streaming, & on Audible. I'd welcome your help in getting the word out to viewers and listeners who might appreciate it.

Congratulations Dr. Ruth Wilson!

1/28/2021

 
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Need some feel-good news today? Please congratulate Dr. Ruth Wilson. She just received her PhD in English from the University of Sydney—at age 89. Ruth's fine dissertation on Jane Austen, "Milestones in a Reading Life," brilliantly brings together reading memoir, reception studies, and the history of education and pedagogy. Her dissertation committee assembled Austen scholars from three continents! Ruth's mentor/examiner team included Drs. Rebecca Johinke, Olivia Murphy, and Katie Halsey, with whom I had the pleasure of serving as an external examiner. Among other things, Ruth's fascinating work describes seeing the 1940 MGM Pride and Prejudice, when it was first released. She was brought to the theatre by her film-loving parents. It turned out to be an exposure to Austen that lasted a lifetime and ultimately led her to this doctoral degree. Ruth is amazing, and she wants to take her original research on Austen, school curricula, and the history of memoir and memory into the wider world, in book and article form. That's absolutely as it should be. Her work deserves a wider audience.

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