JASA
The Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc.
Recorded events
As a service for JASA members who cannot attend our meetings in person, we provide edited recordings of some of our guest speaker’s presentations.
The Scene Enlarged: Jane Austen’s Education of a Reader – Dr Penny Gay
As Jane Austen was writing, what did she imagine about her characters’ bodies in spaces, in contact with specific objects, speaking, listening, watching, in a moment of time? She is asking us to experience ‘being there’ as the story unfolds – as we are (if lucky) at a...
Austen and the hero concept
The Rev Dr Michael Giffin
"Austen and the hero concept" - The Rev Dr Michael GiffinJane Austen gives her heroines a 'telos'—a goal or purpose, fate or destiny, oriented towards what Aristotle calls 'eudaimonia', a state of human flourishing and happiness. This state is never reached by...
There was a great deal of needlework to be done
There was a great deal of needlework to be done – Pamela WhalanThe young people of Mansfield Park are not deliberately unkind to Fanny Price, but they are so absorbed in their own frivolous lives that they do not consider how great a burden of responsibility and hard...
Edward Taylor: Jane Austen’s First Love
“Edward Taylor: Jane Austen’s First Love” – Syrie JamesRenowned author, Syrie James discusses her critically acclaimed novel Jane Austen’s First Love and her research which uncovered a wealth of previously unknown information about the real-life Edward Taylor, heir to...