Topics

Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Afterlives: translations, adaptations, transmediations (e.g., films, TV/streaming series, retellings, video games, fanfiction, etc);

• Global Austen;

• The life of Jane Austen (family, education, juvenilia);

• The rise of the novel: books and reading practices;

• Landscape(s) and travelling;

• (Re)Defining masculinities;

• Womanhood, girlhood & rebel women (or not so much);

• Regency life: fashion, manners, sociability;

• Economy: love and the marriage market;

• Language, style and structure;

• Critical responses (early and recent);

• Literary scene: from sentimental to gothic;

• Nationalism, war and empire;

• Digital Humanities;

• Conventions and transgressions.