ASU Book Group: ‘Wild for Austen’ by Devoney Looser

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm UTC-07:00

Charles Trumbull Hayden Library | Tempe

ASU Department of English
Publisher/HostASU Department of English
ASU Book Group: \u2018Wild for Austen\u2019 by Devoney Looser
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Just in time to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, the ASU Book Group's October 2025 reading selection is “Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane” by Austen expert Devoney Looser, a Regents Professor of English at ASU.
The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly this fall from noon to 1 p.m. in the Hayden Library Luhrs Reading Room, room 101 on the ASU Tempe campus.
This special meeting of the book group also celebrates the Department of English's 125th anniversary as part of ASU Humanities Week and includes a swag giveaway for in-person attendees!
Haven't read the book? Come anyway! Authors are always present.
*Note new in-person location for 2025.
Synopsis: Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly believed Jane Austen to be a quiet spinster, scholar Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest at last in “Wild for Austen.” These, and many other events and characters, come to life throughout this rollicking book. Austen, we learn, was far wilder in her time than we’ve given her credit for, and Looser traces the fascinating and fantastical journey her legacy has taken over the past 250 years.
About the group: The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative hosted in partnership between the Department of English and ASU Library.
More information / register: https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/asu-book-group-wild-austen-devoney-looser
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