29 November 2007
Jane Austen and comedy
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Jane Austen is read from Bath in England, where she spent her later life, to Australia, India and Japan. Perhaps what explains her near universal celebration is her wit. This week the international flavour of her comedy is being celebrated in Melbourne at La Trobe University at a Jane Austen and Comedy conference.
Guests
John Wiltshire
Emeritus Professor in English at La Trobe University. He's written three books on Jane Austen including one called Recreating Jane Austen. His edition of Mansfield Park, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, was published in October 2005.
Jocelyn Harris
Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand and the author of Jane Austen's Art of Memory and A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Further Information
Jane Austen and Comedy conference
International Jane Austen Conference, November 29-30 2007, La Trobe University.
Presenter
Ramona Koval
Producer
Sarah L'Estrange
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