My pedagogical essay about teaching Jane Austen at the crossroads of literature and philosophy and about literature’s engagement with central questions in ethics comes out in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion. My essay “Thinking with Austen” reflects on Austen’s contributions as a novelist to perennial ethical topics—belonging and exclusion, generosity and indifference, living with others and living inwardly—and ways of approaching them in the classroom when teaching this final melancholy novel and its beautiful, muted, quietly sequestered protagonist, Anne Elliot.
Thank you to the editors, Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire, for bringing together this volume and great resource.
