JASNA-MISSISSIPPI UPCOMING EVENTS FOR FALL/WINTER 2020-2021
NOVEMBER BOOK CLUB: THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY, Monday, November 30th, at 7pm
We will be discussing The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. If you would like the zoom link for the meeting and did not receive one, please let me know.
DECEMBER HOLIDAY/BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (NO IN-PERSON CELEBRATION THIS YEAR)
If you plan to participate in JASNA’s Jane Austen Birthday Bake-off, please share a photo of your creation with the region. We would love to see it! I think that is the best way we can celebrate our Jane this year!
JANUARY HOLIDAY/BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: NETFLIX WATCH PARTY, Monday, January 4th, 7pm
We will host a Netflix Watch Party with JASNA-MS member Wesley Saylor as host. If you already have a Netflix account, it is easy to set up on your computer and Wesley will provide detailed instructions. What we will watch is still TBD.
JANUARY SPECIAL EVENT: JASNA PRESIDENT LIZ PHILOSOPHOS COOPER, Tuesday, January 26th, 7pm
Her talk is entitled Jane Austen: Working Woman: “I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way.” Here is a description of the talk: "This illustrated talk will explore Austen’s involvement in the business of publishing novels during a time of rampant financial instability. The Austen family were active participants in both war and finance and these two sectors intertwined in the story of Jane Austen’s writing and publishing." Of course, before and after her presentation you can ask Liz questions about serving as JASNA president and her history with the organization.
FEBRUARY SPECIAL EVENT: OLE MISS ENGLISH PROFESSOR JASON SOLINGER, Thursday, February 25th, 7pm Solinger, who recently spoke at JASNA’s virtual AGM, will give a presentation just for us. Entitled Harding's Legacy: Critics and Janeites, he describes it as follows:
In his 1940 essay, "Regulated Hatred," D.W. Harding famously asserts that Austen's books are most enthusiastically "read and enjoyed by precisely the sort of people whom she disliked." Harding goes on to show how Ausen's most ardent fans are Austen's dupes, always missing the point of the satire and never recognizing the ways in which the novels disparage the very things that Janeites prize: Regency-era pastimes, the cozy comforts of life in the home counties, English civility. To quote the critic, Claudia Johnson, the "legacy" of Harding's essay "is still very much with us"--for the division between academic Austen studies and so-called Janeite ways of reading became fixed and seemingly unbridgeable in the decades to follow. This talk will reassess the legacy of Harding's essay, focusing on the ways in which Janeite readings have come to infiltrate and shape scholarship on Austen. In what ways have critics learned from Janeites, and in some cases tapped into their own inner Janeites? How is the fan's pleasure of enjoying Austen the enabling condition of Austen studies?
We will be discussing The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. If you would like the zoom link for the meeting and did not receive one, please let me know.
DECEMBER HOLIDAY/BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION (NO IN-PERSON CELEBRATION THIS YEAR)
If you plan to participate in JASNA’s Jane Austen Birthday Bake-off, please share a photo of your creation with the region. We would love to see it! I think that is the best way we can celebrate our Jane this year!
JANUARY HOLIDAY/BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: NETFLIX WATCH PARTY, Monday, January 4th, 7pm
We will host a Netflix Watch Party with JASNA-MS member Wesley Saylor as host. If you already have a Netflix account, it is easy to set up on your computer and Wesley will provide detailed instructions. What we will watch is still TBD.
JANUARY SPECIAL EVENT: JASNA PRESIDENT LIZ PHILOSOPHOS COOPER, Tuesday, January 26th, 7pm
Her talk is entitled Jane Austen: Working Woman: “I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way.” Here is a description of the talk: "This illustrated talk will explore Austen’s involvement in the business of publishing novels during a time of rampant financial instability. The Austen family were active participants in both war and finance and these two sectors intertwined in the story of Jane Austen’s writing and publishing." Of course, before and after her presentation you can ask Liz questions about serving as JASNA president and her history with the organization.
FEBRUARY SPECIAL EVENT: OLE MISS ENGLISH PROFESSOR JASON SOLINGER, Thursday, February 25th, 7pm Solinger, who recently spoke at JASNA’s virtual AGM, will give a presentation just for us. Entitled Harding's Legacy: Critics and Janeites, he describes it as follows:
In his 1940 essay, "Regulated Hatred," D.W. Harding famously asserts that Austen's books are most enthusiastically "read and enjoyed by precisely the sort of people whom she disliked." Harding goes on to show how Ausen's most ardent fans are Austen's dupes, always missing the point of the satire and never recognizing the ways in which the novels disparage the very things that Janeites prize: Regency-era pastimes, the cozy comforts of life in the home counties, English civility. To quote the critic, Claudia Johnson, the "legacy" of Harding's essay "is still very much with us"--for the division between academic Austen studies and so-called Janeite ways of reading became fixed and seemingly unbridgeable in the decades to follow. This talk will reassess the legacy of Harding's essay, focusing on the ways in which Janeite readings have come to infiltrate and shape scholarship on Austen. In what ways have critics learned from Janeites, and in some cases tapped into their own inner Janeites? How is the fan's pleasure of enjoying Austen the enabling condition of Austen studies?