rich 1.0 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… Primary texts: Emma, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Clueless dir. Amy Heckerling Secondary reading: Lise Gaston ‘Gossip Economies: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and the Right to Self-Fasion’ European Romantic Review Jan Gordon Gossip and Subversion in Nineteenth Century British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996) Claudia Johnson Jane Austen: Women, Politics and The Novel (1988) Gillian Russell ‘Sociability’ ed. Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997) Heidi Silcox ‘The Many Faces of Gossip in Emma’ ed. Dadlez, E.M. Jane Austen’s Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018) Patricia Meyer Spacks Gossip (New York: Knopf, 1985) Katherine Sutherland, ‘Jane Austen On Screen’ The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (1997) Out-of-Print https://audioboom.com/channels/5167871-out-of-print Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43865331/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8959767/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>