![]() She’s had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN and writes occasional essays on professional issues for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Looser’s writing on Austen has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and Entertainment Weekly. Her most recent is The Making of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), which was named a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction). ![]() Looser, whose upcoming Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Sense and Sensibility will be released in November, will talk about Jane Austen’s celebrity and the history of Sense and Sensibility in pop culture, including 19th- and 20th-century print culture, illustrations, dramatizations, and film.ĭevoney Looser is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of seven books on literature by women. A book signing and reception will follow.ĭr. in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404). ![]() ![]() Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen, will give a talk titled “The Afterlife of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” for the English department’s Dean Family Speaker Series October 23, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. ![]()
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Roth says it was all too easy for her to imagine how Sonya might enjoy being constantly monitored and rewarded for her good behavior. Poster Girl imagines the ultimate surveillance state, where every action is recorded and judged by ubiquitous ocular implants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. ![]() Gornick’s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O’Brien has called “the principal crux of female despair”: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.īorn and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of “urban peasants,” Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother’s romantic depression over the early death of her husband. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. 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