New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

AvJuliette Wells

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen’s novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:553 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350365513

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Juliette Wells, Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College (USA), is the author of two acclaimed books about Jane Austen’s historic readers and fans: Reading Austen in America (2017) and Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011). For Penguin Classics, she edited Austen’s Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015).

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Wells has done something quite unique in her newest contribution to Austen scholarship: written an incredibly engaging and unpretentious academic text. Despite an abundance of endnotes that speak to Wells’ depth of research, the tone is casual and welcoming.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams, critical editor and biographerChapter 2: Canonizing “the giant Jane”: William Dean Howells, interpreter and advocateChapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journalsChapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G. Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archiveAfterword: Jane Austen AnewBibliography