Janeites on happy marriages
Alert Janeite F wrote to tell us that radio station KBIA’s Arts Week program included a presentation by Devoney Looser and George Justice, Austen scholars and themselves a married couple.
Selections from the full interview with MU professors and Jane Austen Society lecturers George Justice and Devoney Looser. Here they discuss why we should all be reading Austen, and why Austen herself never married even though all of her novels end in happy marriages. And they discuss their own happy marriage … listen to get the backstory on George’s proposal to Devoney (it’s good). Devoney and George also perform a reading from Emma. At the October 8 Jane Austen Society meeting in Columbia, Dr. Justice will give a talk on the novel.
A selection from the program is available as a podcast. Visit this page to subscribe and then download the September 22 program. It does not seem to be available as a standalone download.
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Actually, if you click on the link marked “selections from the full interview” at http://www.kbia.org/news/arts.htm, you’ll get the long version. It’s apparently only available in Real Audio, though.