Jane Austen: Protofeminist, Postfeminist, Bad Feminist

Our first program of 2024 will be a virtual one, on Sunday, January 28th, at 4 p.m.  Dr Rachel Gevlin will reprise her breakout session at Denver’s AGM which covered scholarly and public perceptions of Jane Austen’s gender politics in Pride and Prejudice, tracing a brief history of debates around Austen’s role as a feminist, particularly as it relates to the novel.  This was not one of the recorded AGM sessions, so will be new to you, unless you were there. 

Dr Gevlin is Term Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University specializing in the history of the novel, masculinity studies, and legal histories of marriage and divorce. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Eighteenth Century Fiction, Eighteenth Century Life, and English Literary History. In 2021, Dr Gevlin presented on “Austen and Divorce Law” to our Region. 
We hope you can join us on January 28th for “Jane Austen: Protofeminist, Postfeminist, Bad Feminist”.  We plan to allow plenty of time afterwards to ask what you think!