Screen LibraryA companion to Jane Austen
Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen schol...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305968 |
| Summary: |
Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship. Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies. Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xx, 537 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [488]-512) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444305968 (electronic bk.) 1444305964 (electronic bk.) 9781405184878 1405184876 |
| Index Number: | PR4037 |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Contents: |
Jane Austen's life and letters / The Austen family writing : gossip, parody, and corporate personality / The literary marketplace / Texts and editions / Jane Austen, illustrated / Young Jane Austen : author / Moving in and out : the property of self in Sense and sensibility / The illusionist : Northanger Abbey and Austen's uses of enchantment / Re: reading Pride and prejudice : What think you of books? / The missed opportunities of Mansfield Park / Emma : word games and secret histories / Persuasion : the gradual dawning / Sanditon and the book / Turns of speech and figures of mind / Narrative technique : Austen and her contemporaries / Time and her aunt / Austen's realist play / Dealing in notions and facts : Jane Austen and history writing / Sentiment and sensibility : Austen, feeling, and print culture / The Gothic Austen / From politics to silence : Jane Austen's nonreferential aesthetic / The army, the navy, and the Napoleonic wars / Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution / Feminisms / Imagining sameness and difference : domestic and colonial sisters in Mansfield Park / Jane Austen and the nation / Religion / Family matters / Austen and masculinity / The trouble with things : objects and the commodification of sociability / Luxury : making sense of excess in Austen's narratives / Austen's accomplishment : music and the modern heroine / Jane Austen and performance : theatre, memory, and enculturation / Jane Austen and genius / Jane Austen's periods / Nostalgia / Austen's European reception / Jane Austen and the silken fork novel / Jane Austen in the world : new women, imperial vistas / Sexuality / Jane Austen and popular culture / Austenian subcultures / |