Review of \u3cem\u3eEverybody\u27s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination\u3c/em\u3e

Book review of Everybody\u27s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination, by Juliette Wells

Addressing Readerly Unease: Discovering the Gothic in \u3cem\u3eMansfield Park\u3c/em\u3e

Many readers are uncomfortable vvith Mansfield Park since Jane Austen includes aspects of the sentimental novel and the fairy tale in a novel of manners, and because Fanny, who suffers and prospers, is an unusual heroine. This unease with Mansfield Park may come from the placement of gothic symbols and characters within the world of the English gentry. By under standing Mansfield Park\u27s affinity with the gothic novels of the eighteenth century, we might also understand our discomfort with Fanny Price

Flipping the Jane Austen Classroom

The contemporary Austen classroom might appreciate cultural and racial diversity, examine popular culture’s distortions of the original texts, and consider multimodal ways of reading. This paper reflects on a course that “flipped” the research process in order to “find” Austen and her works in the popular culture and to evaluate our understanding in the twenty-first century. Students discovered the commodification and distortion of “Jane Austen” and conducted research for creative projects to learn more about the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the written texts

Review of \u3cem\u3eMansfield Park: An Annotated Edition\u3c/em\u3e

A review of Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition, edited by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Review of \u3cem\u3eJane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations\u3c/em\u3e

A review of Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations by Sue Parrll

Jane Fairfax’s Choice: The Sale of Human Flesh or Human Intellect

It is Jane Fairfax’s story rather than Emma’s, however, that exposes the grim reality of life for many women of the nineteenth century: the attractive and accomplished but penniless young woman is not rescued by a good man. She marries a man who in Austen’s other novels would have been rewarded by a mindless flirt (Lydia Bennet) or an adulteress (Maria Rushworth). Through Jane Fairfax’s story—her life-defining choice between selling herself in the marriage market or the governess trade—Austen subtly exposes the grim reality of life for many women who were handsome, clever, but not rich. Jane Fairfax, perhaps even more than the minor characters in Austen’s other five novels, provides the author the opportunity to portray “the difference of woman’s destiny” (384). By considering the focus of Jane Fairfax’s education and the grim financial as well as psychosocial reality of her future life as a governess, contrasted with her ultimate choice to marry a man who acts contrary to social norms and treats her with disrespect, Austen exposes the limitations faced by a poor woman with a genteel upbringing. Austen shows us that women’s choices are grim: they must be sold in one market or the other

The Importance of Retrieval Failures to Long-term Retention: A Metacognitive Explanation of the Spacing Effect

Encoding strategies vary in their duration of effectiveness, and individuals can best identify and modify strategies that yield effects of short duration on the basis of retrieval failures. Multiple study sessions with long inter-session intervals are better than massed training at providing discriminative feedback that identifies encoding strategies of short duration. We report two investigations in which long intervals between study sessions yield substantial benefits to long-term retention, at a cost of only moderately longer individual study sessions. When individuals monitor and control encoding over an extended period, targets yielding the largest number of retrieval failures contribute substantially to the spacing advantage. These findings are relevant to theory and to educators whose primary interest in memory pertains to long-term maintenance of knowledge