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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

Austen Ivereigh

Based on extensive interviews in Argentina and years of study of the Catholic Church, Ivereigh tells the story not only of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the remarkable man whose background and total commitment to the discernment of God's will ...
How to Defend the Faith: Without Raising Your Voice, Civil ...

How to Defend the Faith: Without Raising Your Voice, Civil ...

Austen Ivereigh

Church and political life - Homosexuality and contraception - Equality and religious freedom - Assisted Suicide - Clerical sex abuse - Defending the unborn - Catholics and AIDS - Keep marriage conjugal - Women and the Church - Ten ...
A Jane Austen Encyclopedia

A Jane Austen Encyclopedia

Paul Poplawski

Jane Austen Society. Jane Austen and Jane Austen's House. Alton: Jane Austen Society, 1949, 12 pp. Mainly on Jane Austen and Chawton. . Collected Reports of the Jane Austen Society, 1949-1965. Folkestone: William Dawson and Son, ...
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope

Austen Ivereigh

4 Dolan, Praying in Rome: Reflections on the Conclave and Electing Pope Francis. 5 Cardinal O'Malley ... 16 See Francis BurkleYoung's classic history of conclaves, Passing the Keys (Lanham: Madison Books, 2001). On the smoke dramas at ...
THE YOUNGER SISTER vol. II - A Jane Austen Novel: A novel in ...

THE YOUNGER SISTER vol. II - A Jane Austen Novel: A novel in ...

Jane Austen

This is the second volume (of three) in the completion of Jane Austen’s series “THE WATSONS” by her niece Catherine Austen-Hubback.
Jane Austen in Context

Jane Austen in Context

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The volume emphasises the subtle interactions between Austen's life and times and her novels. This is a work of reference that readers and scholars of Austen will turn to again and again.
Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives

Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives

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See Deidre Shauna Lynch, 'Cult of Jane Austen', in Jane Austen in Context, ed. by Janet Todd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 111–20 (p. 117). 5. See Clara Tuite, Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon ...
A Companion to Jane Austen

A Companion to Jane Austen

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Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies Engages at length with ...
The Talk in Jane Austen

The Talk in Jane Austen

Jane Austen Society of North America

In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen’s sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue.
Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Claudia L. Johnson

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, ...
The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family

The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family

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This volume of verses by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself as well as a selection of work by her mother, her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, her ...
The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

The Juvenile Tradition: Young Writers and Prolepsis, 1750-1835

Laurie Langbauer

“Appendix E: Continuations of 'Evelyn' and 'Catherine' by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy,” in J. Austen, Juvenilia, Peter Sabor (ed.) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 363–70. Austen, Jane. The Beautifull Cassandra, in ...
Pride & Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

Pride & Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

Arielle Eckstut

Elegantly packaged and 'authenticated' by a so-called Austen expert, Pride and Promiscuity belongs on the bookshelf of Austen fanatics and the millions who have made the films based on her works so popular.
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Peter J. Leithart

Jane Austen “I was riveted by Leithart's excellent biography of Austen, the woman who profoundly influenced me to search for the universal truth in my novels. I was able to see the flesh-and-blood woman I've admired since my teens.
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about ...

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about ...

William Deresiewicz

The author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets explains how six of Austen's novels taught him life-changing lessons.
Les éditions françaises de Jane Austen, 1815-2007: l'apport ...

Les éditions françaises de Jane Austen, 1815-2007: l'apport ...

Lucile Trunel

... de la FNAC : www.fnac.com The Jane Austen information page : www. pemberley.com/janeinfo/jane info.html The Jane Austen Society, UK: www. janeaustenoci.freeuk.com JASNA (The Jane Austen Society ofNorth America): www.jasna.org ...
Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition

Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition

Jane Austen

In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard's annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the critical disagreements Mansfield Park has sparked and suggests that Austen's design in writing the novel was to ...
Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen's ...

Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen's ...

Susannah Fullerton

The craze for 'sexing-up' Jane Austen began with Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes ofjane Austen by Arielle Eckstut and D ennis Ashton. Purporting to be a missing manuscript that was miraculously found, this book contains ...
The Hidden Jane Austen

The Hidden Jane Austen

John Wiltshire

In this major study, leading Austen scholar John Wiltshire offers new interpretations of Jane Austen's six novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey and Persuasion ...
Jane Austen Lives Again

Jane Austen Lives Again

Jane Odiwe

Inspired by Jane Austen's wonderful novels and written in the tradition of classic books like Cold Comfort Farm, I Capture the Castle, and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Jane Austen Lives Again is an amusing fairy story for grown-ups.
A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters ...

A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters ...

Susannah Fullerton

A beautifully illustrated exploration of dance in the life and novels of Jane Austen. “ -Shelf Awareness Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, and a close reading of the novels as well as Austen's correspondence, Susannah ...
Jane Austen on Screen

Jane Austen on Screen

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... the filmmakers "get it right," but inevitably they miss their personal reading of Austen. Roger Gard in "A Few Skeptical Thoughts on Jane Austen and Film" effectively voices this skepticism about the limits of film productions, and Jan Fergus in ...
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Tony Tanner

Analyzes each of Austen's novels, from Northanger Abbey to Sandition, describes her portrayal of society and education, and discusses her use of language
The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide

The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide

Frank Miniter

HOW TO BE JANE AUSTEN'S ULTIMATE ROMANTIC MAN Elizabeth Kantor researched and wrote The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After (2012) to determine how women today can find the type of man the English author Jane Austen ...
The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)

The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)

Norman Page

First published in 1972, Norman Page’s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen’s use of language.
Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the ...

Romancing Jane Austen: Narrative, Realism, and the ...

A. Tauchert

Arielle Eckstut, Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen ( Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2003), pp. 25–6. Arielle Eckstut, Pride and Promiscuity, p. 29. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, pp. 210–41. Ibid., p. 366. Georg Lukács ...
Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786-1945

Jane Austen and Her Readers, 1786-1945

Katie Halsey

'Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945' is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen's novels, focused on the responses of ordinary readers.
Jane Austen's Art of Memory

Jane Austen's Art of Memory

Jocelyn Harris

Jane Austen's Art of Memory offers a radical new thesis about Jane Austen's construction of her art.
Jane Austen and Crime

Jane Austen and Crime

Susannah Fullerton

From murder, adultery, and duelling to gaols, hangings, and stocks, this book examines the criminal landscape of Austen’s England and highlights its significance in her novels.

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