Academic Resources

A working list of primarily academic resources of interest to the creator. This page has been created in the hopes that it may benefit anyone interested in dipping their toes into reading Jane Austen critical articles.

It is by no means complete, nor entirely relevent on the surface. However, it could provide a starting point if you’re interested in figuring out what academics work with Austen research; many of the academics do a wide range of formal and less-formal work for engaging a variety of people.

As a disclaimer, many of the resources on this list are sources the creator has yet to read in part or in full; if you do read any on the list please remember to make your own informed judgements on whether the reference is objective, well-researched, informative, etc, and not to assume that just because it shows up here, that it has been vetted. Although many of these resources are published by academic presses or through academic peer-reviewed journals, the creator has not done background research into those presses/journals.

Intriguing

“OMG JANE AUSTEN: Austen and Memes in the Post #MeToo Era.” Humanities 2023

Creative Interpretations

• Barbara Heller’s curation of Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion (2022)


• Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated (2016)

Podcasts/Websites

• Barchas, Janine. What Jane Saw.


• Burke, Lauren and Chapman, Hannah K. Bonnets at Dawn. Soundcloud. 2018- now.


• Burke, Lauren; Chapman, Hannah K., and Bales, Kaley. Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers. Chronicle Books LLT. 2021.


• Flynn, Kathleen A. The Jane Austen Project: A Novel


• *Sabor, Peter (Principal Investigator).Reading with Austen

Critical Books:

• Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nisancioglu. How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press, 2015.


• Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Clarendon Press, 1988.


• Barchas, Janine. The Lost Books of Jane Austen. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.


• Cossy, Valérie. Jane Austen in Switzerland. Editions Slatkine, 2006.


• Dearden, Harvey T. Jane Austen: The Missing Pieces. Independently Published, 2020.


• Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.


• Giles, Paul. Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. JSTOR


• Johnson, Claudia L. Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. University of Chicago Press, 1990.


• Johnson, Claudia L. Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures. University of Chicago Press, 2012.


• Johnston, Freya. Jane Austen, Early and Late. Princeton University Press, 2021.


• Kelly, Helena. Jane Austen, the Secret Radical. Icon Books Ltd, 2016.


• Keymer, Tom. Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics. Oxford University Press, 2020.


• Looser, Devoney. The Making of Jane Austen. John’s Hopkins University Press, 2019.


• Lynch, Deidre, and William B. Warner, editors. Cultural Institutions of the Novel. Duke University Press, 1996. JSTOR


• Lynch, Deirdre S. Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees. Princeton University Press, 2000.


• Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994.


• Taylor, John Tinnon. Early Opposition to the English Novel: The Popular Reaction from 1760 to 1830. Edited by Aleks Matza. Amazon Kindle, 2014.


• Troost, Linda and Greenfield, Sayre. Jane Austen in Hollywood. The University Press of Kentucky,1998.


• Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Vol. 2, Princeton University Press, 1997. JSTOR


• Tuite, Clara. Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Critical Articles/Online Articles:

• Antone, Margaret K., "The Mutual Development in James, Henry, and Jane Austen's Early Writings" (2010). ETD Archive. 385.


• Baker, Jennifer. “How Gaslighting in Fiction Can Reflect the Realities of Psychological Abuse", June 23rd 2021.


• Bennet, Ashly. “Shame and Sensibility: Jane Austen's Humiliated Heroines.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 54, no. 3, 2015, pp. 377–400.


• Boulukos, George E. “The Politics of Silence: ‘Mansfield Park’ and the Amelioration of Slavery.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 39, no. 3, 2006, pp. 361–383. JSTOR.


• Boulukos, George. “The Secret History of the Rise of the Novel: The Novel and the Middle Class in English Studies.” *The Eighteenth Century*, vol. 52, no. 3/4, 2011, pp. 361–382. JSTOR.


• Canuel, Mark. “Jane Austen and the Importance of Being Wrong.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 44, no. 2, 2005, pp. 123–150. JSTOR.


• Cossy, Valérie. “Why Austen cannot be “classique” in French: New Directions in the French Reception of Austen.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 30, no. 2. Jane Austen Society of North America. Spring 2010.


• Fraiman, Susan. “Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 21, no. 4.The University of Chicago Press. Summer 1995. pp. 805-821.


• Fraiman, Susan. “Jane Austen on the Global Stage.” A Companion to World Literature, Volume IV. Ed. Ken Seigneurie. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.


• Fraiman, Susan. “The Liberation of Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 31, no.1. *Jane Austen Society of North America*. Winter 2010.


• Galperin, William. “The Picturesque, the Real, and the Consumption of Jane Austen.” *The Wordsworth Circle*, vol. 28, no. 1, 1997, pp. 19–27. JSTOR.


• Halsey, Katie. “Jane Austen’s Global Influence.” Oxford University Press. 25th January 2019.


• Kelly, Helena. “Austen and Enclosure.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 30, no. 2. Jane Austen Society of North America. Spring 2010.


• King, Noel J. “Jane Austen in France.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 8, no. 1, 1953, pp. 1– 26. JSTOR. Accessed 24 June 2021.


• Kramp, Michael. “The Woman, the Gypsies, and England: Harriet Smith's National Role.” College Literature, vol. 31, no. 1, 2004, pp. 147–168. JSTOR.


• Lindley III, Dwight. “In Defense of Jane Austen.” National Review. May 16th 2021.


• Looser, Devoney.“Breaking the silence: Exploring the Austen family’s complex entanglements with slavery.” Times Literary Supplement. May 21st 2021.


• Richardson, Phyllis. “Pride and Property: On the Homes of Jane Austen.” Literary Hub. May 14th 2021.


• “Special Issue: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries.” The Eighteenth Century. Vol. 56 (No.2); Summer 2015. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Anthologies (for context and reference):

• Burgwinkle, William; Hammond, Nicholas; Wilson, Emma. The Cambridge History of French Literature.
• Greenblatt, Stephen (general editor). The Norton Anthology of English Literature 10th Edition A-F.
• Johnson, Claudia L, and Clara Tuite, editors. A Companion to Jane Austen. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.