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Jane Austen's ‘Emma’ and the art of misreading

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

May 30, 202668:00Society & Culture

What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings follow firmly in the footsteps of ‘Tristram Shandy’ in their deployment of heightened sentiment as a tool for satirising romantic novelistic conventions. But h...

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Jane Austen's ‘Emma’ and the art of misreading is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings follow firmly in the footsteps of ‘Tristram Shandy’ in their deploymen...

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Published May 30, 2026, 68:00 long, audio available.