The Feminine Genius of Jane Austen

The new issue of the St. Austin Review is hot off the press! The theme of this issue is “The Feminine Genius of Jane Austen”. Highlights:

Mitchell Kalpakgian learns “Lessons from Jane Austen”, urging “Old World Manners in Today’s World”.

Marie Devlin McNair connects “reading and revelation” in Jane Austen’s novels.

Jeanette Amestoy Flood sits in judgment on the sense and sensitivity of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

Jessica Pipes finds “Austen’s Ordinary Heroine”, Emma Woodhouse, “faultless in spite of her faults”.

Veronica A. Arntz discovers “The Art of Practical Wisdom” in Persuasion’s Anne Elliot.

Isabel Azar charts the evolution of Austen’s Pride, a musical adaptation.

Eleanor Bourg Nicholson surveys the film adaptations of Austen’s work and is not often amused.

Susan Treacy examines the “innocent luxury” of “Music in the Life of Jane Austen”.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker considers “C. S. Lewis and Plain Jane”.

John Beaumont recounts “how two Austen admirers came to the Catholic Church”.

Donald DeMarco waxes controversial on the meaning of “feminine genius”.

Ken Clark’s full colour art feature focuses on Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Annunciation.

Fr. Benedict Kiely sees the Dogma as the Drama.

K. V. Turley considers Dirty Harry (from a safe distance), musing upon “the rage of the anti-hero”.

Kevin O’Brien finds the addictive internet to be “our drug of choice”.

Marie Dudzik joins Charles Coulombe on A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail.

Louis Markos is enlightened by The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (McIntosh).

Stephen Mirarchi ascends The Crooked Staircase with Dean Koontz.

Plus new poetry by Jake Frost, Philip C. Kolin and Denis Mockler.

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