Dinner and Drinks with Austen: The Readings

For those interested in joining us for the Dinner and Drinks with Austen series, please see below for a list of links to e-reader and PDF versions of our readings. Alternative hard copy versions welcome.




Sense and Sensibility

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161


 Persuasion

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/105

Criticism

(2-3 of them TBA)

Favret, Mary. "Everyday War." ELH 72.3 (2005): 605-33. (Available via IU Libraries)


Galperin, William. "What Happens when Jane Austen and Frances Burney Enter the Romantic Canon?" Lessons in Romanticism. Ed. Thomas Pfau. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1998. (PDF will be e-mailed to list of RSVPs two weeks prior to meeting)

Drinks and Dinner with Jane Austen

Welcome back from break! A few people from the Eighteenth-Century Reading Group and the Nineteenth-Century/Victorian Reading Group have decided to co-host three casual meetings over the course of January and February---we're calling it "Dinner and Drinks with Jane Austen." We will be reading and discussing Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and some of the most crucial (and some of the most recent) Austen criticism across several delicious Bloomington dining and drinking locations. You need not be a specialist in C18 or C19 British literature to attend! And, of course, if you are in need of transport to any of the events, you may contact me at raseiler@indiana.edu and I will personally send over a phaeton or barouche for your convenience.


The dates and locations are below--while most of the time our respective reading groups do not require RSVPs, we are hosting these events at restaurants, so please contact me (again at raseiler@indiana.edu) at least 24 hours prior to the event so I can have a decent estimate of the headcount for reservations. Reminders will be sent out closer to the dates!


Dinner with Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Friday, January 24th @ Farm
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.


Dinner with Austen: Persuasion
Friday, February 7th @ Uptown
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.


Dinner with Austen and Her Critics
Friday, February 21st @ Finch's
Drinks, ordering, and casual chatter begin at 6 p.m. Discussion goes from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.