Exploring Secrets and Integrity in 'Sense and Sensibility'

In Part 2 of our discussion on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, editor Stephanie Insley Hershinow discusses her own history with Austen, common misconceptions about the novel, her favorite line in the novel, a Sense and Sensibility-inspired playlist, and more.

Stephanie Insley Hershinow is an associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, where she specializes in novel theory and eighteenth-century culture. She is the author of Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel. She lives with her family in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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Listen to our Spotify playlist inspired by Sense and Sensibility: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57XGkr5wU6J7QN6LvET2OX?si=b45ea6554c9c4431.

Episode transcript at https://seagull.wwnorton.com/senseandsensibility/part2/transcript.