Jane Austen Birthday Celebration

Program Type:

Author Talk, Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Come celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday year with an evening of lively discussion about all things Austen!  Professor John Bugg of Fordham University will lead a discussion of Austen’s final book Persuasion published in 1811.  He’ll also share a letter Austen wrote after attending a party in London that will help us explore her priorities and craft as a writer.  A must-attend event for Austen fans!
Refreshments will be served. We recommend you read or re-read Persuasion!

This program is in partnership with the Village Bookstore of Pleasantville.

 

John Bugg is author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2014) and British Romanticism and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2022). His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, TLS, Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and Keats-Shelley Journal. He has held fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is co-founder, with Sarah Zimmerman, of the Fordham Romanticism Group. He is currently working on a cultural history of City Lights Books for Scribner.