Re-reading Jane Austen: the experience of sixty years later - Ben Taaffe

This will be Ben’s second time speaking for JASA; the first time he spoke on “Jane Austen in the Classroom”. He writes, “In 2010, when I left the classroom, I thought that retirement would mark the end of literature classes, that I would bid Jane Austen adieu. But I was wrong. At this stage of my life, with me in my seventies, Miss Austen and I are back together. Today’s occasion focuses on what I have learned from re-readings, especially from superimposing one novel of Jane Austen onto another.”