Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives

Annika Bautz is Associate Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at Plymouth University, UK. Her publications include The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott (2007), as well as essays on Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, library history, and other aspects of the history of the book in the Romantic and Victorian periods.Sarah Wootton is a Professor of English Studies at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the afterlives of nineteenth-century writers in fiction, art, and screen adaptation. She is the author of Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature (2006) and Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation (2016), and the winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize.

• Introduction – Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives 1. Austentatious: Comedy Improv and Austen Adaptation in the Twenty-first Century 2. Morbid Curiosity and Monstrous (Re)Visions: Zombies, Sea Monsters, and Readers (Re)Writing Jane Austen 3. Mediations on Value in Mansfield Park, or Jane Austen Tries to Balance the Books 4. Philadelphia and the Making of Jane Austen in the United States, 1816–1838 5. Austen’s Late-nineteenth-century Afterlives: 1890s Introductions to Her Novels 6. "Let Other Pens Dwell on Guilt And Misery": Jane Austen and Escapism, from Trench Warfare to YouTube Fanvids 7. The Problem of the Jane Austen Musical 8. Austen Approved: Pemberley Digital and the Transmedia Commodification of Jane Austen 9. Interpretations of Jane Austen’s Irony on Screen and in Translations: A Comparison of Some Samples 10. Revisiting Jane Austen as a Romantic Author in Literary Biopics