“On Jane Austen’s Regulated Hatred”
OPEN LECTURE
by Mgr. Ema Jelínková, Ph.D.
Palacký University, Olomouc
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 1:30 p.m.
Auditorium A5
Jane Austen, a novelist whose fame has survived unabated, was praised for upholding good manners, decorum and traditional values. And yet, her readers could perceive her satirical stance, a dark undercurrent of revolt undermining her texts. It has become quite obvious that Austen was an ironist who could not fully embrace either the values of the society in which she lived or its literary conventions without feeling provoked to respond or even retaliate in her own writings. The objective of my lecture is to present a truthful account of Jane Austen.
Ema Jelínková is a research assistant at Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Her research interests include Scottish literature, women’s writing, and satire. She specialises particularly in the satirical aspects in the fiction of Jane Austen and Muriel Spark.
She is the author of the survey British Literary Satire in Historical Perspective (2010) and the Czech-language monograph Ambivalence v románech Muriel Sparkové (Ambivalence in Novels of Muriel Spark; 2006). She has co-authored a series of collective monographs on aspects of Scottish fiction, including Scottish Gothic Fiction (2012) and Scottish Women Writers of Hybrid Identity (2014). Most recently, she has co-edited and contributed a chapter to the international monograph The Literary Art of Ali Smith: “All We Are Is Eyes” (2019), published by the Peter Lang publishing house.