Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how the 2020 film adaptation of EMMA raises to a new pitch the blend of feelings, well-meaning intentions, gossip, and secrecy that propels Emma towards a fatal realization, namely, that there are limits to her “heroism of sentiment” and that she is blind to her own feelings. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.