Jane Austen

The following is from The Explicator, a subscription journal available through Herrick’s research databases: Jane Austen’s irony is endlessly challenging to those of us who like to grasp just how an author achieves distinctiveness and who then want to tell others what we think we have found. No slight part of her ironic effect stems…

This paper specifically explores the characterization of Elizabeth Bennett in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and argues that she is a representation of a modern woman in a nineteenth century world. 6 pages in length. Typical of Jane Austen’s novels, the author strives to portray a more equitable relationship between the genders. In Persuasion, the…

Essay Topic: That Emma is as relevant today as it was in the C19th How relevant is the story of ‘Emma’ including the social and emotional issues that run throughout the story to society today? Would young women in the 20th century struggle with these issues or are they unique to the period in which…