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MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250
Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto
Faculdade de Letras | Universidade do Porto
2-4 October 2025
Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford
Fiona Stafford is a writer, broadcaster and literary scholar. She is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She has worked on Jane Austen for many years, and is the author of Jane Austen: A Brief Life (2017). She has also edited Emma for Penguin and Pride and Prejudice for Oxford World's Classics and Emma: A Casebook of Criticism. She also works on Romantic period literature, place and nature writing, Archipelagic studies, literature and the visual arts. Other recent books include Time and Tide: The Long, Long Life of Landscape; Byron's Travels; The Brief Life of Flowers; The Long, Long Life of Trees; Reading Romantic Poetry; Local Attachments.
John Mullan
John Mullan
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (2012). His other books include Anonymity. A Secret History of English Literature (2007) and The Artful Dickens (2020). He published a new edition of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for Oxford World’s Classics in 2017 and a new World’s Classics edition of Emma in 2022. He is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of Jane Austen.
"Time in Jane Austen's Novels"
"Time in Jane Austen's Novels"
The lecture will show how Jane Austen uses time with exactitude to structure her novels. It will look at how she makes us aware of time as measured by the clock. (Which Jane Austen novel has the most times of day in it, and why?) It will also consider how much dates matter in her fiction. We will examine the time-consciousness (and sometimes time-unconsciousness) of her characters, but also try to show how she creates a time-consciousness for her reader. This will include her artful exploitation of what readers and characters experience as gaps in time.
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