The Role of Parents in Jane Austen's Novels

JASNA CWNY

February Meeting

Event: Book Discussion

Topic: Parenting in Jane Austen's Novels

When: Saturday, February 15, 2025, 1 pm

Where:   Zoom to register click HERE

At our next meeting, Susan Harris-Gamard will lead us in a discussion of parents and the concept of
parentage in Jane Austen's novels.

Throughout Jane Austen's novels, parents play a key role not only in the lives of her characters, but
within the narrative itself. Susan will start out our discussion by exploring the variety of parents in the
novels, while focusing on the consequences of those parents’ actions. She will also be examining the
concept of parentage and the family tree and what these mean to the many parents in the novels. Her
specific focus will be on the “fallen women” in her novels, and the role of parents in their “falling”.
A lively discussion will ensue immediately afterwards. 

Please feel free to bring your own ideas about
parents and parentage to the table.

Here are three available references that Susan has provided for the meeting:
General Tilney and Tyranny: Northanger Abbey untitled

Father Figures in the Novels of Jane Austen
The Transformative “Fall”: A Structural Metaphor in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

And two more references from older issues of Persuasions if you have them:
Parental Relationships in Jane Austen’s Novels: New Perceptions on Rereading » JASNA
Breeding and Inbreeding in Mansfield Park

The meeting will be on Zoom since it is winter in Rochester. Here is the link to register for the Zoom

meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zLJ6CqdKQeitC_bz-MtDYQ

When you register, Zoom will send you a link for the meeting.

See you on Zoom!