Impertinence and Impropriety: Dragon Voices in Jane Austen’s World

Generally, I like to keep all things author-ly light and fun. Way back in the dark ages, high school English felt rather traumatic, and very, very dark (Thomas Hardy, I’m looking squarely at you!) I don’t pretend to any great literary aspiration, but I do love story nearly as much as I love sociology and the study of culture. Occasionally, someone asks me to speak about the more scholarly aspects of writing and Austen, like the Jane Austen Summer Program did this year. So, I shed my fuzzy pi...