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‘I am never too busy to think of S&S’, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra in April 1811. The year saw the publication of her first novel and to mark the event, we are
hosting a conference that reflects upon two-hundred years of readership and opens up new interpretations of the novel. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and round tables on any aspect of the novel.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
• Social and historical context
• Reception of the novel
• Cult of Sensibility/contemporary aesthetic theory
• Literary influences
• Adaptations of the novel
• Re-writings, sequels and appropriations of the novel
• The novel’s place in the canon
Keynote speakers: Kathryn Sutherland (St Anne’s College, Oxford),
Paula Byrne (Liverpool) and Jane Stabler (St Andrews).
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