Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – considers the novels, EMMA and PERSUASION, in a comparison built around the contrast between Emma Woodhouse, the “imaginist” and child of privilege, and Anne Elliot, the late bloomer who dwells in melancholia. A shared desire for intimacy is the driving force behind the heroines’ actions, but why does it take so many pages to get to a good dénouement? Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.