Friday Bookblogging: Who Cares About the Movies, Go Read Something Edition
We’re a little worn out from the movie blogging, between those already out and those upcoming, so what say we kick back with some interesting reading material this weekend? There’s lots out there!
JASNA has posted the text of Persuasions No. 12, containing papers from the 1990 Annual General Meeting in Washington, D.C., at which the theme was Sense and Sensibility. We were especially amused (going back to the movies for one teeny minute) to see that one of the articles is a comparison of eight different Jane Austen biographies (and that we’ve read all but one of them!).
Another new online publication is Serena Dyer’s Dressing Jane, a quarterly publication on costume in Jane Austen’s time. The first issue was just sent out today, and contains several articles on clothing in the 1790s, the period when Jane Austen was a young woman with a keen interest in fashion. (Again, timely!) If you haven’t signed up to receive this free publication, what are you waiting for?
Ibn Warraq challenges Edward Said’s claims of colonialism in Jane Austen’s work in the New English Review. Now we want to check out Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition, ‘a fling at the slave trade’ by Gabrielle D.V.White. Amazon doesn’t carry it, so we wield our ninja-like Google-fu, and find it on Amazon UK, and quite dear it is, too. ILL, anyone? Thanks to Alert Janeite Susan for the link to the NER piece.
We were mildly amused by this “letter from Jane Austen” from the Associated Press, and wondered why there was an image of the Jane Austen Handbook on it when it wasn’t mentioned in the article! Though we suppose any publicity is good publicity, right? Thanks to Alert Janeite Tamara for sending it.
Macleans also has an article on the recent spate of Austen media, with a particular concentration on all the books hitting the shelves recently! Thanks to Laurie Viera Rigler, who was interviewed for the piece, for kindly pointing out the mention of our own darling child.
Congratulations to Lori Smith, whose book A Walk With Jane Austen received a starred review in Publisher’s Weekly!
That does it for another Friday (night into Saturday morning) Bookblogging, and always remember, Gentle Readers: Books Are Nice!
