Tag Archives: Persuasion

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Care

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2013

Austen’s Emma demonstrates an ethics of care–but only for people in her own class.

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Jane Austen Answering Machine Messages

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2013

Answering machine messages as Austen characters would have composed them

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Students Persuaded by “Persuasion”

By Robin Bates | Published: November 29, 2012

College students continue to find Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” compelling.

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An Austen Romance for Dems and GOP?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2012

It proved easy to apply the election to Toni Morrison and Jane Austen in my classes.

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Serving Students a Jane Austen High Tea

By Robin Bates | Published: October 23, 2012

Serving my students a Jane Austen high tea made the novels come alive.

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Can Poetry Be Bad for You?

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2012

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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How to Film Austen Heroines Saying Yes

By Robin Bates | Published: August 20, 2010

Amanda Root as Anne Elliott  Film Friday One must show a great deal of sensitivity in how one films a Jane Austen heroine accepting a marriage proposal. That’s because the author never shows us the acceptances directly. Although I am generally not a great fan of filmed versions of Jane Austen novels, I have to […]

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On the Logic of Having Babies

By Robin Bates | Published: December 7, 2009

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2009

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 […]

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