{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Jane Austen’s Gossip Girl","description":"This week Emmeline transports Alice and Sophie to the juicy underworld of 18th century gossip, comparing Austen’s classic text ‘Emma’ to the contemporary arena of the high school, à la Clueless. The girls discuss the etymology of the word gossip, it’s function as a social glue and key driver of plot, and then unpack some of the hottest new gossip about their friendly neighbourhood aquarium…\n\nPrimary texts:\nEmma, Jane Austen\nPride and Prejudice, Jane Austen\nClueless dir. Amy Heckerling\n\nSecondary reading:\nLise Gaston ‘Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and the Right to Self-Fasion’ European Romantic Review\nJan Gordon Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth Century British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996)\nClaudia Johnson Jane Austen: Women, Politics and The Novel (1988)\nGillian Russell ‘Sociability’ ed. Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997)\nHeidi Silcox ‘The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma’ ed. Dadlez, E.M. Jane Austen’s Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018)\nPatricia Meyer Spacks Gossip (New York: Knopf, 1985)\nKatherine Sutherland, ‘Jane Austen On Screen’ The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997)","author_name":"Out-of-Print","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5167871-out-of-print","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43865331/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}