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Jane Austen Series: Not Your Mother’s Jane Austen

Mon, Nov 14
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Friends Auditorium

Featured Programs, Adult, Jane Austen Series

Presented by Robert Anderson, associate professor of English at Oakland University. Recent scholarly work has revealed an Austen much more adventurous than the skilled miniaturist, observer of manners and prose stylist she was thought to be. Anderson draws on her fiction and some of the recent film adaptations to reveal an edgier Jane Austen. To be precise, he will argue for a writer capable of crafting bawdy jokes and unafraid to engage in the most controversial political debates of her time – including slavery and the rights of women.

Registration is requested. Limit 100. Fill out the form below or call the Adult Reference Desk at 248-246-3727 to sign up for the free program.

84 of 100 places available.
50 of 50 places available on the waitlist.

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