Online access to a Valentine’s special: Deputy Director Kim Simpson talks to Professor Fred Parker about the perils of declaring love in the long eighteenth century.
Online Video: On Declaring Love, a Conversation with Fred Parker
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Available now, until 28 February
“What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.”
Jane Austen, Emma
In this Valentine’s special, Deputy Director Kim Simpson talks to Dr Fred Parker about the perils of declaring love in the long eighteenth century, and finds out what was at stake for Austen’s heroines and lovers when it came to talking about their feelings. What is the relation between what you can tell and what you can feel? How is ‘speaking the heart’ to be reconciled with our social being? And what, for Austen, made people fall in love?
Professor Fred Parker is a Fellow and Tutor at Clare College, Cambridge, and a Senior Lecturer in English. His books include On Declaring Love: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Jane Austen (Routledge, 2019); The Devil as Muse (Baylor UP, 2011); Scepticism and Literature (OUP, 2003); and Johnson’s Shakespeare (Clarendon, 1991).
