A companion to Jane Austen / edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite.
Johnson, Claudia L.; Tuite, Clara, 1964-
2012
PR4037 .C65 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
A companion to Jane Austen / edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite.
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN
9780470672389 paperback
0470672382 paperback
Publication Details
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 537 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PR4037 .C65 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.7
Summary
"A Companion to Jane Austen provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies while covering the full breadth of the novelist's work and career. Focusing on changing contexts and cultures of reception, the text provides groundbreaking new interpretations in more than 40 essays by a distinguished ream of influential literary critics and Austen scholars. Sections comprise: The Life and the Texts; Reading the Texts; Literary Genres and Genealogies; Political, Social, and Cultural Worlds ; and Reception and Reinvention. As a scholarly reference and comprehensive survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field, A Companion to Jane Austen illuminates the power of Austen's novels to enchant readers"--Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [488]-512) and index.
Added Author
Johnson, Claudia L.
Tuite, Clara, 1964-
Series
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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Jane Austen's life and letters / Kathryn Sutherland
The Austen family writing : gossip, parody, and corporate personality / Robert L. Mack
The literary marketplace / Jan Fergus
Texts and editions / Brian Southam
Jane Austen, illustrated / Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire
Young Jane Austen : author / Juliet McMaster
Moving in and out : the property of self in Sense and sensibility / Susan C. Greenfield
The illusionist : Northanger Abbey and Austen's uses of enchantment / Sonia Hofkosh
Re: reading Pride and prejudice : What think you of books? / Susan J. Wolfson
The missed opportunities of Mansfield Park / William Galperin
Emma : word games and secret histories / Linda Bree
Persuasion : the gradual dawning / Fiona Stafford
Sanditon and the book / George Justice
Turns of speech and figures of mind / Margaret Anne Doody
Narrative technique : Austen and her contemporaries / Jane Spencer
Time and her aunt / Michael Wood
Austen's realist play / Harry E. Shaw
Dealing in notions and facts : Jane Austen and history writing / Devoney Looser
Sentiment and sensibility : Austen, feeling, and print culture / Miranda Burgess
The Gothic Austen / Nancy Armstrong
From politics to silence : Jane Austen's nonreferential aesthetic / Mary Poovey
The army, the navy, and the Napoleonic wars / Gillian Russell
Jane Austen, the 1790s, and the French Revolution / Mary Spongberg
Feminisms / Viven Jones
Imagining sameness and difference : domestic and colonial sisters in Mansfield Park / Deirdre Coleman
Jane Austen and the nation / Claire Lamont
Religion / Roger E. Moore
Family matters / Ruth Perry
Austen and masculinity / E.J. Clery
The trouble with things : objects and the commodification of sociability / Barbara M. Benedict
Luxury : making sense of excess in Austen's narratives / Diego Saglia
Austen's accomplishment : music and the modern heroine / Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Jane Austen and performance : theatre, memory, and enculturation / Daniel O'Quinn
Jane Austen and genius / Deidre Lynch
Jane Austen's periods / Mary A. Favret
Nostalgia / Nicholas Dames
Austen's European reception / Anthony Mandal
Jane Austen and the silken fork novel / Edward Copeland
Jane Austen in the world : new women, imperial vistas / Katie Trumpener
Sexuality / Fiona Brideoake
Jane Austen and popular culture / Judy Simons
Austenian subcultures / Mary Ann O'Farrell.

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