The theme of JASNA’s 2010 AGM is “Jane Austen and The Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem, and Muslin in Portland.” JASNA member Janine Barchas’s groundbreaking essay is recommended reading in preparation for the AGM: “Mapping Northanger Abbey: or, Why Austen’s Bath of 1803 Resembles Joyce’s Dublin of 1904. The essay appeared last year in The Review of English Studies, a leading scholarly journal published by Oxford University Press, and has recently been selected by the editors of the journal for public release.
Dr. Barchas, who is on the English faculty of the University of Texas-Austin, will be a speaker at the Portland AGM. Her intriguing presentation is titled “The Real Bluebeard of Bath: A Historical Model for Northanger Abbey.” Essays by Dr. Barchas also appear in JASNA’s journal Persuasions Nos. 30 and 31.
Additional reading about Northanger Abbey is available in Persuasions On-Line, JASNA’s electronic journal:
“Of Course You can Trust Me!”: Jane Austen’s Narrator in Northanger Abbey, Henry N. Rogers III
Reading by the Book in Northanger Abbey, Barbara Benedict
“Willy-Nilly” and Other Tales of Male-Tails: Rightful and Wrongful Laws of Landed Property in Northanger Abbey and Beyond, Deirdre E. Gilbert
The Invention of Civility in Northanger Abbey, Joseph Wiesenfarth
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