Updated June 30, 1997
Personals:
"The recent spate of movies based on Jane Austen's novels has left many JASNA members less than satisfied
with the liberties that have been taken with her works. We therefore offer the following diversion to keep us in good humor:
Jane Austen's Novels as Films: It Could be Worse
Title:
Capt. Wentworth: Sylvester Stallone
Anne Elliot: Pamela Anderson Lee
Lady Russell: Sigourney Weaver (as
her character in the movie Aliens
-- shaved head, military fatigues,
major ammunition worn on the body
at all times)
In a typical Hollywood plot aberration, a deranged Lady Russell will attempt to 'persuade' Capt. Wentworth not to
marry Anne by stalking him. This must lead, of course, to a most violent and protracted shootout at the movie's end, in which
Lady Russell will be killed by Capt. Wentworth, and Anne will be free. Instead of tenderly pressing her hand, however, Capt. Wentworth
pulls Anne into a heart-shaped Jacuzzi, and . . . well, you get the idea.
Just think -- Mansfield Park with Jim Carrey as Edmund Bertram, giving an entirely new meaning to the words,
'my dear Fanny.' . . . We invite you to create your worst Jane Austen film nightmare, and remember -- it could be worse!"
Submit your creative Hollywoodizations to:
Susan Midura and friend at midura@acsu.buffalo.edu
Items of consumer interest:
Jane Austen: In Style (Susan Watkins) can be bought from Hamilton Books for $13.96 (paper).
It's a book along the lines of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. In Style has very lavish illustrations,
and some interesting text -- as well as the merit of being, unlike the latter book, exclusively about Jane Austen's culture.
Hamilton is also offering An Unequal Marriage; or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later
(Emma Tennant, $5.95 (hard cover)).
You can get more information on either book, or order both, on the 'net at
www.HamiltonBook.com
Call for a reviewer:
We are interested in recruiting people who would like to review the new Jane Austen Companion, and the
newish biography of Austen. Copy deadline would be December 31, length, a maximum 500 words. As is customary,
you will be able to keep the book(s) you review -- a good way to build up a library!
Email us as soon as you can if you think you'd be interested.
AND:
As always, we are looking for people willing to write for the site. If you want to review books/articles or to contribute
an article and need information, please contact Emily Hipchen via email at
hipchene@uwwvax.uww.edu
Articles should be under 5,000 words. Send your entry via email to the address above, or by post to Emily Hipchen,
Department of Languages and Literatures, 435 Heide Hall, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190.
You may send disks formatted for either Macintosh or IBM (IBM preferable), in a word processing program compatible with
WordPerfect 6.0. To be safe, you may want to save your work in an ASCII DOS text file. Citations should be either MLA style
or Chicago Manual style.
Reviewers may contact Emily Hipchen at the email or postal address above.
Review articles should be very short (check out the archives for an example), and should address publications written in the last two years.
Reviews may cover either scholarly articles or books.
And just a note: we love (LOVE) interdisciplinary work, so if you're doing something outside academe, you can (should) certainly
contribute too.
Be sure to let us know what you think of the site, or what you'd like to see (or what you can't see because the
colors aren't set right). Thanks for your interest, and you may be excited to know that we don't want any dues yet. :)
Thanks again for visiting the page!
Emily Hipchen, site maintainer
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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