Reading Jane Austen

Danielle Spratt (she/her) is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where she is Director of Community Engagement. Her areas of interest include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the history of science and medicine, the rise of the novel, public and digital humanities, and critical community engaged research and teaching. She is co-author of Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice and co-editor of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. She is currently finishing a monograph on the history of medicine and reproduction.

• IntroductionPart I: Reading Histories1. “What Have You Been Judging From?” Misdirected Sympathy, Shame, and Nation-Building in The Female Quixote and Northanger Abbey Kathleen Tamayo Alves 2. Reading for Contrary Purposes: Unsettling Domestic Intimacies in Mansfield Park and Janet Schaw’s Journal of a Lady of Quality Nina Moon 3. Virtue and Duty in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park Tim Black Part II: Reading Presentisms 4. Bad Marriages and Queer Desires: Adultery, Sodomy and Incest in Mansfield Park Susan Celia Greenfield 5. Anne Elliot’s Rabbit: The Intertextualities of Austen Adaptations Adela Ramos6. Austen and the Fantasies and Failures of Reproductive Justice Danielle Spratt Part III: Reading Futures 7. The Politics of Play in Jane Austen and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Colleen Marie Tripp 8. Pro-Choice Austen: Persuasion and the Power of Writing the Self Jodi L. Wyett Conclusion: Call to Action Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Tim Black, Susan Celia Greenfield, Nina Moon, Adela Ramos, Danielle Spratt, Colleen Marie Tripp, and Jodi L. Wyett