Jane Austen & Comedy – The Art of Knowing our own Nothingness

Name: Jane Austen & Comedy – The Art of Knowing our own Nothingness
Start: 2025-11-09T14:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-09T16:00:00-06:00
Location: 401 W Mountain St, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Arkansas 72701

Schedule

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

401 W Mountain St, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Arkansas 72701 | Fayetteville, AR

Celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with a special talk in her honor. Learn how Jane Austen incorporated humor and wit in her works and still has readers captivated today.
University of Arkansas professor Sean Dempsey will present “Jane Austen and Comedy: ‘The Art of Knowing our own Nothingness’”.
About the presenter:
Sean Dempsey is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. His teaching interests include the works of Jane Austen, romanticism, and 19th century poetics.
https://www.faylib.org/event/14816547