Austen’s Emma demonstrates an ethics of care–but only for people in her own class.
Tag Archives: Persuasion
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Care
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Students Persuaded by “Persuasion”
College students continue to find Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” compelling.
Serving Students a Jane Austen High Tea
Serving my students a Jane Austen high tea made the novels come alive.
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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?
The possibility that poetry can have a deleterious effect on one (the poetry of Scott and Byron anyway) is a possibility that Austen brings up in “Persuasion.”
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On the Logic of Having Babies
In a recent post on her website, my wonderful daughter-in-law reflects on whether she and Darien will have children. The reflection was occasioned by our Iowa Thanksgiving where she saw all of her husband’s cousins having children (and I mean all, the only exceptions being those who are in college or younger). So Betsy compiles […]
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Austen, Not Byron or Scott, for Strength
My final post in this four-part series shows how my student Mary used Persuasion in her Jane Austen senior project to validate her growing self-confidence. She focused in that novel on the reading scenes involving the sensitive Captain Benwick, who is shattered by the death of his fiancé Fanny Harville. To console himself, Benwick plunges […]
