Category: Lady Bertram

Ep61: The Thing About Speculation with guest Dr. Regulus Allen

2/19/2023

This week we're dealing out an episode on the game of Speculation with our guest Dr. Regulus Allen. We discuss the rules of play and the ways in which the game serves the narrative in Mansfield Park. Dr. Allen also provides us with some fun speculation (see what we did there?) as to what Jane Austen's own favorite card game might have been.

Thank you so much to Regulus for joining us for this episode! You can learn more about her and her work at https://english.calpoly.edu/faculty/allen.

For an explanation of the rule for Speculation, see "How to Win at Speculation" from JaneAusten.co.uk

Ep51: The Thing About Lady Bertram's Flower Gardens with guest Dr. Menglu Gao

10/6/2022

The roses need trimming so we are headed to Mansfield Park, clippers in hand. This week we are joined by Dr. Menglu Gao as as we chat about Lady Bertram's flower gardens, Regency landscaping preferences, and the role of women in cultivated outdoor spaces.

Thank you so much to Menglu for joining us for this episode! You can learn more about her and her work at https://udenver.academia.edu/MengluGao.

Ep40: The Thing About Lady Bertram's Pug with guest Dr. Stephanie Howard-Smith

6/2/2022

Every dog has its day! Dr. Stephanie Howard-Smith is here to answer all of our many questions about Lady Bertram's pug in Mansfield Park, covering everything from Pug's name, why Austen might have chosen a pug for Lady Bertram, and the gendered aspects of 18th-century dog ownership.

Thank you so much to Stephanie for joining us for this episode! You can find her on Twitter @SAHowardSmith.

For more work about Pug and lapdogs from Stephanie:

Howard-Smith, Stephanie. “Bridgerton’s Beloved Corgi Is a Total Fraud.” Slate, March 31, 2022. https://slate.com/culture/2022/03/bridgerton-season-2-kate-sharma-dog-corgi-historical-accuracy.html.
———. “China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lap-Dogs, 1660-1800.” In Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Bärbel Czennia and Greg Clingham, 63–91. Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures. Lewisberg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2021.
———. “‘Hearty Fow Children’: The Penrhyns, Pugs, and Mansfield Park.” Persuasions 35 (2013): 191–99.
———. “Little Puggies: Consuming Cuteness and Deforming Motherhood in Susan Ferrier’s Marriage.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 34, no. 3 (March 1, 2022): 307–32. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.34.3.307.

Ep31: The Thing About Marianne's Smelling Salts with guest Dr. Emily C. Friedman

3/10/2022

Pull up your fainting couch because have we got a revivifying episode for you! Dr. Emily C. Friedman is here to take us through the olfactory delights of smelling bottles, as well as breaking down what their various scents and applications tell us about characters like Marianne Dashwood and Lady Bertram.

Thank you so much to Emily for joining us for this episode! You can find her on Twitter @friede, on Instagram @ManuscriptFiction, on YouTube @CriticalProf, and at www.ecfriedman.com where you can find information about all of her work.

Also, check out Emily's monograph Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, coming out in paperback soon.

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Ep61: The Thing About Speculation with guest Dr. Regulus Allen

Ep51: The Thing About Lady Bertram's Flower Gardens with guest Dr. Menglu Gao

Ep40: The Thing About Lady Bertram's Pug with guest Dr. Stephanie Howard-Smith

Ep31: The Thing About Marianne's Smelling Salts with guest Dr. Emily C. Friedman

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