Session 1: Jane Austen for Our Times: Austen’s Brilliant Designs

Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how novels such as EMMA and PERSUASION can do more than nourish an attraction towards romance. In exploring such volatile entities as beauty, wit, secret loves, or fatal attractions, they invite an exploration of social configurations that do not necessarily lead to happiness. Visit for more lectures and mini-courses.