An A–Z Guide to Jane Austen's World

Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2026-01-01

6 Picturing (In)Sensibility in Austen’s Novels and Print Culture

Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2024

• Art
• Literature
• Aesthetics

Jane Austen's Youthful Art of Anticlimax

Journal of Juvenilia Studies · 2023

• Literature
• History
• Art history

Jane Austen wrote three volumes of juvenilia, entitled Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third. Most scholars agree that they were written between the ages of eleven and eighteen (1787-1783). These stories are hilarious and outrageous, particularly considering the understated decorum of her later novels. It is true, as Margaret Anne Doody claims, that these youthful writings “point in directions in which their author was later not permitted to go” (Doody, 103). Yet in many ways, these teenage writings nonetheless proleptically define her taste and mission in her mature works. This essay focuses on one aspect of her style in these teenage writings, as well as its afterlife in her later writings. In considering her use of anticlimax, this essay also suggests the ways in which this particular stylistic device or figure of speech shapes Austen's greater mission and strategy as a novelist, suggesting continuity rather than discontinuity between the teenage writer and the mature author. In fact, the use of anticlimax is directly related to the critical disputes over Austen’s endings and whether or not she is impatient with conclusions in general.

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 2023 · 1 citations

• Economics
• Psychoanalysis
• Art history

The Early Psychosis Screener (EPS): Quantitative validation against the SIPS using machine learning

UNC Libraries · 2021-12-17 · 1 citations

The Early Psychosis Screener (EPS): Item development and qualitative validation

UNC Libraries · 2021-12-17

Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program

2021-09-14

In this essay, Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton study the dialogue and productive discourse fostered among scholars, teachers, and Austen enthusiasts in the summer program founded in 2013. Austen’s omnipresence and cultural capital, they argue, are strengths rather than liabilities for a public humanities enterprise, blending as it does scholarly discourse and hands-on experiences within a social environment that brings together multiple audiences and ages. Their essay provides substantial detail on how the programming has been structured to foster education advocacy and achieve its wide-ranging goals.

Development of the Perinatal Depression Inventory (PDI)-14 using item response theory: a comparison of the BDI-II, EPDS, PDI, and PHQ-9

UNC Libraries · 2020-04-15

The objective of this study is to develop a simple, brief, self-report perinatal depression inventory that accurately measures severity in a number of populations. Our team developed 159 Likert-scale perinatal depression items using simple sentences with a fifth-grade reading level. Based on iterative cognitive interviewing (CI), an expert panel improved and winnowed the item pool based on pre-determined criteria. The resulting 67 items were administered to a sample of 628 pregnant and 251 postpartum women with different levels of depression at private and public sector obstetrics clinics, together with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Edinburg Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS), and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), as well as Module A of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Diagnoses (SCID). Responses were evaluated using Item Response Theory (IRT). The Perinatal Depression Inventory (PDI)-14 items are highly informative regarding depression severity and function similarly and informatively across pregnant/postpartum, white/non-white, and private-clinic/public-clinic populations. PDI-14 scores correlate well with the PHQ-9, EPDS, and BDI-II, but the PDI-14 provides a more precise measure of severity using far fewer words. The PDI-14 is a brief depression assessment that excels at accurately measuring depression severity across a wide range of severity and perinatal populations.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00737-015-0553-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Austen’s ‘Emma’

2020-03-27

Tyrants, Lovers and Comedy in the Green Worlds of Mansfield Park and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

2019-01-01