Janine Barchas on the Lost Books of Jane Austen

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Author and professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas talks about her book, The Lost Books of Jane Austen, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores Austen's enduring reputation, how the cheap reprints of her work allowed that reputation to thrive, the links between Shakespeare and Austen, how Austen has thrived despite the old-fashioned nature of her content, Colin Firth's shirt, and the virtue of studying literature.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:50.0	tell us about yourself and your listing experience, and now for today's guest.
0:54.0	My guest is author and professor, Jeanine Barkas, the Luan and Larry Temple Centennial Professor
1:00.0	English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, her latest book,
1:04.0	and the subject of today's conversation is the lost books of Jean Austin.
1:09.0	Jeanine, welcome to econtalk.
1:11.0	Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:13.0	This is our first episode on Jean Austin, pretty confident of the 700 plus that we've done.
1:18.0	We like it. Yeah, I know it's hard to believe.
1:20.0	And some listeners may be thinking, why are we talking about Jean Austin?
1:24.0	I hope to reward your patience listeners, and we have a really interesting episode today around
1:30.0	Jane Austin herself, her foot, the phenomenon of Jane Austin,
1:34.0	and a really beautiful book that you've written, Jeanine, the lost books of Jane Austin.
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