To the reader: On this page you will find a miscellany of essays on Austen I have written over the years. I begin with my most recent work, filmographies, then provide a series of essays on the editions of Austen's novels, move to my current interest, the Austen films, and then present chapters and essays on the life of Austen and readings and literary criticism of the novels.

Filmographies

• The Austen movies: organized by type
• The Austen movies: organized by source

A series of reviews essays on recent editions of Austen's novels, with information on controversies over the texts, and film adaptations.

• "Ours is a competitive business, sir": the latest Oxford Sense and Sensibility
  
• A novel many novel-readers feel called upon to read: on the latest Oxford Pride & Prejudice
  
• The world as "take-in:" the latest Oxford Mansfield Park
  
• "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like:" the latest Oxford Emma
  
• A Journey through Austen's career: the latest Oxford Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon
  
• Seeking a social identity: the latest Oxford Persuasion
  

Abbreviated versions of these essays (just the analyses of the editions of Austen in the last quarter century) have appeared in the online Jane Austen Center Magazine:

• Sense and Sensibility
• Pride and Prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma
• Persuasion
• Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon

There follow essays and reviews on a selection of the Austen movies. This is work towards my book project, The Austen Films

• Sense and Sensibility

  From Prada to Nada: BSECS Media Reviews, 31 December 2012 (a revision of the review below)

  From Prada to Nada: Making a Case for Spanish American Working Class Culture, 28th December 2012

  Women's Friendships in Davies's S&S and Emma Emma and Harriet and Anna and Jane; Elinor and Marianne

  1995 P&P and 2008 S&S: two films of two sisters journeying in life side-by-side

  Elinor Drawing Water: The 2008 Sense and Sensibility quotes Pasternak: how intertextuality Works

  The 1st mini-series adaptation of Sense and Sensibility: 1971, an effective and moving stage comedy
  

  The Poetry of the Sense and Sensibility movies: comparing the 1981, 1995 S&S with the 2000 I have Found It
  

  Sense and Sensibilities alter the landscape of the Austen films
  

  Elinor Drawing Water the 2009 Sense and Sensibility quotes the 2002 Dr Zhivago: how intertexualities work in films

  Revealing Similarities and Differences: two S&S films (1981 & 1995)
  

  The Mini-series: the four Austen S&S films and Jewel in the Crown

• Pride and Prejudice

  Filmic Epistolarity in Andrew Davies's 1995 BBC/WBGH Pride and Prejudice

  Some thoughts on Charlotte Lucas and the paired women scenes in Davies's P&P and other films

  1995 P&P and 2008 S&S: two films of two sisters journeying in life side-by-side

  Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice:: Lawrentian/Kapur Austen; or, A Vision of the Shy Still Heart

  A Lyrical Melodrama: the 1979 Pride and Prejudice
  

  A spectacular, extraordinary film: 1995 A&E/BBC Pride and Prejudice
  

  The 2005 Pride and Prejudice: "Bliss it is to spend your life as Mrs Darcy."

  Screwball and romantic comedy: free adaptations of Austen, Bridget Jones's Diary, You've Got Mail, free adaptations of P&P
  

  Becoming Jane: a dismaying mirror wherein the film's plot-design is based on Pride and Prejudice
  

  Dreaming the Austen Movies: Lost in Austen: a loving comic pastiche (1)

  Lost in Austen: The Harrowing of Amanda's Dream (2)

  Lost in Austen: "We must not reproach ourselves for unlived lives" (3).

  Lost in Austen: "You don't do guilt, do you" amid a time-travelling tale (4)

• Mansfield Park

  In defense of Rozema's 1999 Mansfield Park: three reviews

  Mansfield Park 2007: Another Perspective
  

  Mansfield Park Madness: A defense of the 2007 ITV Mansfield Park
  

  A natural heroine: modern philosophical currents against artifice in the 2007 ITV Mansfield Park

  Mansfield Park at the Movies (BSECS)

  Mansfield Park at the Movies (with stills)

  What the 4 film adaptations have to tell us about Austen's Mansfield Park

  A Tribute to Austen by Whit Stillman: Christmas in Metropolitan

• Emma

  Aisha: Emma through Clueless lenses, a film from Delh

  Women's Friendships in Davies's S&S and Emma Emma and Harriet and Anna and Jane; Elinor and Marianne

  Sandy Welch's 2009 Emma: tellingly supports Bottomer's thesis about autism in Austen.

  Sandy Welch's 2009 Emma: an indwelling Proustian film

  A psychologized community portrayal: Sandy Welch's 2009 Emma

  Dreaming the Austen movies: the 1972 Emma
  

  The 1972 Emma: a parallel insult scene
  

  Sombre comedy: more on the older Emma and Persuasion films
  

  1996 McGrath Emma and 2008 Miss Austen Regrets: picturesque and poignant romance
  

  1996 A&E/Meridian Emma: "something odd going on with Mr Knightley"
  

  Two of many Emmas: more on film adaptations

• Northanger Abbey

  Sister-Novels, but not Sister-Films: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
  

  Andrew Davies's latest film adaptation: Northanger Abbey, 2007
  

  The Three Northanger films: 1987 and 2007 Northanger Abbey, 1993 Ruby in Paradise
  

  Ruby in Paradise: A Young Lady's Entrance into the World, another Austen film!
  

  Room with a View 2007: a rewrite of Northanger Abbey: Davies's film uses the intertextuality between the two books

  Women's Friendship and the Gothic in Northanger Abbey

• Persuasion

  Dear/Michell's 1995 Persuasion: two lonely, nay stranded people trying to reach one another (1)
  

  Dear/Michell's 1995 Persuasion: Poetry, Music and Pace (2)
  

  The 1971 Persuasion: On location
  

  Persuasion 2007 and the latest Austen films

  The Compleat Persuasion, 1971, 1995, 2007
  

  David Auburn's Lake House: a free adaptation of Persuasion

• "Biopics," multi-text free adaptations (appropriations), and a published review of a collection of essays just on Austen films:

  Andrew Davies's Austen Movies in full context

  Diasporic Jane: Images of displacement, exile and homelessness in the Austen films

  Jane Austen's Perception of Christmas: from the films and novels
  

  David Nokes: The woman in the Letters, a major source for Miss Austen Regrets
  

  The 2008 Sense and Sensibility and Miss Austen Regrets: Sister Films
  

  The acid test: Austen and Whit Stillman, mostly on Last Days of Disco, partly a free adaptation of Emma
  

  The Jane Austen Book Club: A Free Adaptation of All the Austen books!
  

  Jane Austen Goes to the Movies, Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, ed. Linda Troost

Then two chapters of a book in which I was to focus on the place Bath took in her life and art. These are followed by a review of a scholarly book on Bath and a paper presenting the life of Jane Austen's Aunt Jane Leigh-Perrot where I argue that it's probably Jane's Aunt Jane stole the famous (to those who know about Austen's life and relatives) lace.

• Jane Austen and Bath: Biographical
  • Prologue: In Search of 18th Century Bath, A Visit
  • Chapter One: Riddled with Untruths. [The Present Impossibility of Biography].
  • A review of Peter Borsay's The Georgian Image of Bath. I include a select bibliography of major books on Bath.
  • "The Life and Crimes of Jane Leigh-Perrot"
  • David Nokes: The woman in the Letters, a major source for MIss Austen Regrets

Published and Conference papers, essays and reviews of books centering on Austen's novels: Literary Criticism

• Published essays
  • “Henry is an excellent patient . . . ready to swallow anything:” Coping with Food, Housekeeping and Bodies in Austen" in Such Things as Please My Own Appetite: Food and Drink in Jane Austen's Time, A JASNA-DC Book publication 2010
  • “'People that marry can never part': An Intertextual Reading of Northanger Abbey, Persuasions Online:31:1, Winter 2010.
  • "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility," Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), 233-266.
• Conference papers:
  • The Gothic Northanger Abbey: A Re-Evaluation." Given at a panel at the EC/ASECS, Georgetown University, November 6-9, 2008. "Re-evaluating Austen." Chairperson: Elizabeth Lambert. Participants: Manuel Schonhorn, Elizabeth Lambert, Ellen Moody
  • Jane Austen Among French Women. Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2003 meeting at the University of Pittsburg at Greensboro: "English Literature in France." Margaret Koehler, Chair. Panelists: Walter Gershuny, Ellen Moody, Robert Frail.
• Proposals for Conference Papers (rewritten as short essays)
  • "'To translate seemed to me a beautiful thing to do": Translation as Matching Creative Act"," for a Chawton Conference: Pride and Prejudices in Women's Writing of the Later 18th century, a panel called Women Writers and Translation, July 2013.
  • “Occupy (!) the letters: how Austen's letters reveal women's bodies are her fictions' arena, Submitted proposal for breakout sessions for 2011 JASNA, Brooklyn, NYC: "Sex, Power, and Money" in Jane Austen's Fiction," October 5-7, 2012
• Essays online:
  • Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis: Writer, Educator, Mother (1746-1830): her life, Adele et Theodore, Story of the Countess of C*********, Connections to Austen.
  • "Jane Austen in French", published in Ekleksographia Wave Two, October 2009.
  • "Jane Austen and Vampires" published in Jane Austen Center online magazine, March 15, 2009, originally written as Two Ends of a Spectrum: Vampire Harlequin Janes (& Twilight books) versus Agnes Grey and Mary Reilly: an argument that the contemporary anodyne romantic vampires and vampire material inserted into Austen's novels ("toothless") are versions of harlequin romance. I and others in the commentary consider the subgenres of gothic. Written February 2009.
  • Disquieting Patterns in Austen's Novel. Proposal for a panel or session of papers on Austen. I look at the quasi-incestuous patterns, hiddden tabooed loves, and bad Tuesdays in the novels. Written July 2009, blog written January 2009.
  • Female Gothic and Northanger Abbey: review of books & poetry. Written September 2008.
  • In defense of Edmund Bertram (first written 1998), published in the Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine in 2009, with a brief commentary on this essay reconsidered 11 years on (placed on blog, 2009)
  • Jane Austen's Heroes (first written 1996 and placed on the Republic of Pemberley), published in the Jane Austen Centre Online Magazine in 2008, and Criteria for evaluating Jane Austen's Heroes, the same essay reconsidered 12 years on (placed on blog, 2008).
• Reviews:
  • A review of The Later Manuscripts, edd. Janet Todd and Linda Bree, part of The Cambridge Editions of the Works of Jane Austen. Cambridge University Press, 2008. For August 2012 The Eighteenth Century: A current Bibliography
  • A Review of David Nokes's Jane Austen: A Life: The Woman in the Letters; a Major source for Miss Austen Regrets
  • A Review of A Critical Companion to Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work by William Baker. New York: Facts on File, Infobase Publishing, 2008. Appeared in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, NS, 22:2 (2008):43-46.
  • Reviews of John Wiltshire, Susan Fraiman, David Nokes, Austen websites & blogs: compendium, together with links to photos of Steventon, Winchester &c
  • A Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Women: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson by Gloria Sybil Gross. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century No. 40. New York: AMS Pr, 2002. Pp. 208. ISBN 0-404-63540-7. $62.50. For The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, N.S. 18:3 (Sept 2004): 30-32.
  • A Review of Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility by Moreland Perkins. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. xi + 208. $24.50. This is an expanded version of the review which appeared in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 99:1 (January 2000): 141-43.

Last (but never least), readings of the novels

• Sense and Sensibility: A Reading
• Mansfield Park: A Reading
• Northanger Abbey: A Reading