Just back from a splendid symposium at UCLA in honour of Felicity Nussbaum, pioneering scholar of feminist, post-colonial, and disability studies for the eighteenth-century. Among the many plaudits from colleagues and friends were those from a panel of her bright-eyed, enthusiastic ex-graduate students, now all teachers and authors of their own research. It was most moving.
My Work
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Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen
Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, 2017. Order Now available in hardback and paperback. Also available from Jane Austen Books, Bucknell University Press, University Book Shop and other usual online book retailers. In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher, and a keen […]
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Publications List
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Jane Austen Performances
Reading and dramatizing Jane Austen makes her even funnier and more revealing. Jocelyn and Terry MacTavish have presented Jane Austen readings in Dunedin at the Globe Theatre, the Public Art Gallery, and the Savoy restaurant, on such topics as “Women Behaving Badly in Jane Austen,” “Jane Austen and Fashion,” and “Women Chasing Men in Jane […]
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Sir Charles Grandison (with introduction and notes)
Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison. 3 parts. London: Oxford University Press. Repr. 1986 (pbk), 2001. Facsimile reprint available from the University of Otago. The seven-volume Grandison was immensely popular when first published in 1753-54, and highly influential for subsequent generations of writers before it fell into neglect and even derision. This edition […]
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Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson. Cambridge: CUP. Repr. 2009 and on demand. This book contributed largely to the Richardson “renaissance,” the reappraisal of his novels as the most remarkable and influential of the eighteenth century. As an outsider, Richardson found common cause with women, realising that the relationship between men and women is as politically charged as that […]
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Jane Austen’s Art of Memory
Jane Austen’s Art of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Repr. 2003 and on demand. Buy Online: Jane Austen Books. Buy Online: Cambridge University Press.
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A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen’s Persuasion