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Postings Related to Jane Austen

_The Clandestine Marriage_ at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre · 11 May 05

Sex in Austen films (but especially the 2nd BBC _P&P_ & Rozema's _MP_) · 4 June 05

Re-Drawing Austen · 8 June 05

_Wives & Daughters_, Amélie Mansfield_, _Claire d'Albe_: women's films & books · 2 July 05

Barbie Abusers & Eva Sedgwick's "Jane Austen & the Masturbating Girl" Redux · 6 July 05

L'écriture-femme: Jane Austen and Sophie Cottin · 8 July 05

A Review of _MP_ and more on Sex in Austen films · 9 July 05

Two of many _Emmas_: More on film adaptations of Austen's novels · 13 July 05

Jane Austen sequels: Musing on Imagining Characters · 15 July 05

Elizabeth Jenkins's _Harriet_: A Jane Austen Gothic · 24 July 05

_P&P_, 2005: Bliss it is to spend your life as Mrs Darcy · 21 November 05

Another poem in praise of Jane Austen's art · 27 November 05

The lost letters of Jane Fairfax and Mrs Elton · 11 January 06

Anna Bilinska: _Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes_ · 14 January 06

_Mansfield Park_ · 21 March 06

Janeism in a Snarky, Pornified & Desperate Era · 29 April 06

_Mansfield Park_: Said, Rozema, and cultural studies redux · 7 June 06

For an essay on film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels · 2 November 06

Overreacting against Janeisms · 7 November 06

I'd rather be reading Jane Austen · 14 November 06

Jane Austen make-overs · 20 November 06

Austen make-overs: the other Mr Knightley · 23 November 06

It is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible · 7 December 06

An Unsentimental _Emma_? · 12 December 06

Two gothic films & 3 melancholy plays · 18 December 06

Never underestimate the capacity of the BBC costume department · 23 December 06

Revealing Similarities & Absences in two S&S films · 26 December 06

Ruby in Paradise: A young lady's entrance into the world, another Austen film! · 2 January 07

The importance of costume in costume dramas · 8 January 07

After the Proposal: Similarities & cut scenes in the Austen films · 13 January 07

The 1971 Persuasion: On location · 23 February 07

Title for paper on JA film adaptations · 24 February 07

Sombre comedy: more on the older Persuasion and Emma films · 25 February 07

"The fever of an infectious film" · 27 February 07

On adaptations as such · 7 March 07

Screwball or romantic comedy: transpositions of Austen · 15 March 07

4th decade of film adaptations of Austen · 21 March 07

The latest _Mansfield Park_: a 'natural' heroine? · 28 March 07

Bridget Jones style · 29 March 07

Andrew Davies' latest film adaptation: _Northanger Abbey_ · 2 April 07

A new great adaptation: _The Compleat Persuasion_ 2007 · 3 April 07

The latest _Mansfield Park_: a 'natural' heroine? (Cont'd) · 4 April 07

Bridget Jones style -- cont'd · 9 April 07

Sister Novels but not Sister Films: _Northanger Abbey_ and _Persuasion_ · 10 April 07

Post-feminism as refuge invention · 17 April 07

_Persuasions_: pure emotional pain from one end to the other · 1 May 07

Bridget Jones style -- not very well · 11 May 07

The acid test: Austen and Whit Stillman · 15 May 07

Older v newer Austen films: the 1983 BBC _MP_, a Chekhovian marvel · 17 May 07

Living in the Past · 26 May 07

Caroline Bowles Southey & Cowper in the 1983 _Mansfield Park_ · 2 June 07

_It's an ill wind that does nobody any good_ · 4 June 07

The Poetry of Movies: costume drama · 7 June 07

A Spectacular, Extraordinary film, the 1995 A&E/BBC _Pride and Prejudice_ · 10 June 07

_Becoming Jane Austen_ · 18 June 07

Cheering Jane in the fierce heat · 20 June 07

Dreaming the Austen movies · 25 June 07

Were Jane Austen's characters autistic? · 27 June 07

Reading _Pride and Prejudice_ in Teheran · 30 June 07

That ill wind · 6 July 07

Lyrical Melodrama: the 1979 _P&P_ · 12 July 07

Sarah Cardwell on ur-texts and Andrew Davies · 25 July 07

A revealing switch or omission in the _Emma_ films · 29 July 07

_Becoming Jane_: a dismaying mirror · 6 August 07

The 1972 BBC _Emma_: a parallel insult scene · 8 August 07

Another story for _Ill Wind_ · 14 September 07

The mini-series: the 4 Austen _S&S_s & _Jewel in the Crown_ · 15 September 07

"The Lady's Maid's Bell:" ghost story & gothic film adaptation · 17 September 07

More thoughts on film adaptations: typologies · 26 September 07

Movie Terminology (Cont'd) · 15 October 07

_The Jane Austen Book Club_: A Free Adaptation of all the Austen books! · 22 October 07

The Poetry of the _S&S_ movies · 28 October 07

Why my draft for an essay on Jane Austen movies was no good · 14 November 07

Saturday: Stevenson's "The Price, a November letter & 3 _Persuasions_ · 17 November 07

When Austen's words & works entered my life -- & on Jane Bennet · 24 November 07

"Afterward:" an instance of how film must differ from text · 7 December 07

The Masterpiece Theatre Jane Austen films · 1 January 08

Utter contempt: how the audience for Austen films is being treated · 22 January 08

Film adaptation typology screwed up · 24 January 08

The fidelity problem: thoughts on writing about movies · 29 January 08

In which we were given summaries of parts of the stories of 6 1990s Austen films · 31 January 08

_Persuasion_ 2007 & the latest Austen films · 1 February 08

The film _Cranford Chronicles_: a paean to community · 6 February 08

Compelled yet again by _Clary_: fidelity as evaluative · 8 February 08

John Wiltshire's _JA: Introductions & Interventions_ · 9 February 08

_Mrs Darcy's Dilemma_ & _The Duties of the Spirit_ · 1 March 08

Jane Austen's Aunt Jane probably stole that lace · 21 March 08

1996 A&E/Meridian _Emma_: "something odd going on with Knightley" · 24 March 08

The Three Northanger Abbey Films · 7 April 08

Sense and Sensibilities alter the landscape of Austen films · 2 May 08

_School for Scandal_ at the Folger · 13 May 08

The 1996 McGrath _Emma_ & 2008 Hughes _Miss Austen Regrets_ · 24 May 08

Austen days & nights · 29 May 08

Austen Unchapmaned · 1 June 08

Congreve's _The Way of the World_ · 5 June 08

Austen: subtexts in the fight over recent new editions · 7 June 08

A _Critical Companion to Jane Austen_ contextualized · 17 June 08

"Ours is a competitive business, sir:" the latest Oxford _Sense and Sensibility_ · 1 July 08

David Auburn's _Lake House_, a free adaptation of Austen's _Persuasion_ · 15 July 08

A novel many novel-readers feel called upon to read: on the latest Oxford _Pride & Prejudice_ · 23 July 08

The 1st mini-series film adaptation of _Sense and Sensibility_ · 31 July 08

Filmic women: mirrors, windows, & candles · 6 August 08

Betty Rizzo's _Companions Without Vows_ · 18 August 08

_Mansfield Park_ Madness · 23 August 08

The world as "take-in:" the latest Oxford _Mansfield Park_ · 26 August 08

The Female Gothic and _Northanger Abbey_ · 8 September 08

_The Duchess_ was a writing and reading girl too · 19 September 08

"a heroine whom no one but myself will much like:" the latest Oxford edition of _Emma_ · 22 September 08

A political & a womens' film: _Religulous_ & _The Duchess_ · 13 October 08

A benign (!) _The Way of the World_ at the Shakespeare theatre · 16 October 08

Reading about Jane Austen & photos of Steventon, Chawton, Winchester · 19 October 08

A Journey through Austen's career: the latest Oxford _Northanger Abbey_, _Lady Susan_, _The Watsons_ and _Sanditon_ · 21 October 08

Austen-related films: _Happy Go Lucky_, a gentle film; _The Ice Storm_, cruel beauty · 6 November 08

An Austen Miscellany; The Gothic Northanger Abbey: A Re-evaluation · 16 November 08

Criteria for Evaluating [Austen's] Heroes: Twelve years on · 18 December 08

Disquieting Patterns in Austen's Novels · 13 January 09

In defense of Edmund Bertram; Two ends of a spectrum: Vampire Harlequin Janes (& Twilight books) versus Agnes Grey & Mary Reilly · 20 February 09

Milos Forman's _Valmont_: an anti-Thatcherite era costume drama · 6 March 09

A truth not universally acknowledged about film adaptations & _Jane Austen without Masks_ · 13 March 09

The politics of biography redux: Burney & Austen hijacked? · 16 March 09