Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser is a professor of English at Arizona State University, and the author of The Making of Jane Austen. She has written for The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Queering the Work of Jane Austen Is Nothing New

Starting in the Victorian era, stage performers and writers have been subverting the novelist’s reputation as the go-to author for conventional, heterosexual love.
- Devoney Looser
- July 21, 2017
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Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen’s Accidental Feminists

Ang Lee and Emma Thompson’s 1996 film portrays a masculinity that embraces women’s desires, independence, and well-being.
- Devoney Looser
- February 21, 2016

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Devoney Looser

Queering the Work of Jane Austen Is Nothing New

Sense and Sensibility and Jane Austen’s Accidental Feminists