Jane Austen Birthday Celebration

 

Cuts off a Long Lock of Her Hair
C.E. Brock
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Event:    JASNA CWNY (Virtual) Jane Austen Birthday Celebration

Topic:    "A Young Lady of Spirit Happened to be at the Playhouse":

                Austen Re-Writes the Archetypal Coquette for Regency England

                A talk by Claudia Martin, Adjunct Associate Professor at 

               Binghamton University, and JASNA CWNY Member

When:    Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 1 pm EST 
Where:   Online through Zoom, pre-registration required

Notes:     Enjoy birthday cake and/or popovers at home

               Don't forget a suitable beverage on hand for the birthday toast!

Registration: Click HERE to register.

Once again we will celebrate Jane Austen's birthday with a virtual gathering. This year's meeting will feature Claudia Martin speaking on: "A Young Lady of Spirit Happened to be at the Playhouse": Austen Re-Writes the Archetypal Coquette for Regency England. Claudia gave this talk at the recent AGM and we are delighted to have her bring it to us in the Central and Western NY Region.

The speaker writes: The figure of the coquette, a woman publicly performing femininity in pursuit of pleasure and masculine attention, was an archetype that Austen knew well from plays and fictions of the 18th century. This presentation will look at theatrical influences on Austen’s flirts, using film clips to suggest why the coquette readily adapts to film and cross-cultural adaptations.

Claudia Martin is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in both the English Department and the Engineering School, teaching 18th and 19th century British Literature, Law and Literature, and Bad Girls and Wicked Women in Fiction. Her research focuses on the relationship between novels of the long 19th century and the network of laws and socio-legal practices that dispossessed women. 

Please join us for the Birthday Luncheon talk.