Jane Austen lived in a material world, and her characters were material girls. This talk unpacks how the things they owned and desired expose the deeper currents in Jane Austen’s fiction.
Dr. Zan Cammack is the co-host of The Thing About Austen, a podcast that unpacks the hidden meanings behind the objects in Jane Austen’s novels—think bonnets, banknotes, and brooches with baggage. She teaches in the English & Literature Department at Utah Valley University, where she specializes in British and Irish literature and the intersection of story, stuff, and society.
