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Jane Austen's Contemporary Appeal  
What makes Austen's novels attractive to contemporary readers and moviegoers? The characters and the nostalgia for moral order they inspired in industrial mid-nineteenth-century society and today. The plots of Austen's novels and how they are treated in movies; the plot of courtship and the quest for a marriage partner. Clothing in Jane Austen's novels and costumes in film versions.
Program 51
  Participants
Stephanie Hull
Deborah Kaplan
James Thompson

 

 
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