Everybody's Jane

Austen in the Popular Imagination

AvJuliette Wells

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This title explores the afterlives of Jane Austen's work in literature, film and popular culture. The plethora of Jane-Austen-related fiction and nonfiction - sequels, mysteries, dating guides, invented biographies, and more - that has appeared within the last decade attests to her readers' enthusiasm for re-envisioning her characters as well as herself. "Everybody's Jane" is the first study to investigate fully these popular appropriations of Austen in England and America, taking into account recent scholarly work on fan cultures and fan fiction. Like these Austen-inspired works themselves, this book stands at the crossroads between studies of popular culture and literary studies; it also offers a major contribution to the ongoing public discussion about the significance and relevance of Jane Austen today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:561 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441176547

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Mer om författaren

Juliette Wells is Assistant Professor of English at Manhattanville College, USA. She is editor (with Sandra Hagan) of The Brontes in the World of the Arts (Ashgate, 2008) and was features editor for the Penguin Classics enhanced e-book edition of Pride and Prejudice (2008).

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Juliette Wells's Everybody's Jane engagingly fills a surprising gap in the bulging Jane Austen bookshelves, surveying how and why this writer of six anonymously published novels attracts both young and old, female and male, and academics and amateurs. Professor Wells leads the reader, including this one, to think about why one loves and respects the same "Jane" who has sparked an Austen cottage industry of key chains, mugs, and Regency dressing, but who shunned fame and publicity in her own life.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Approaching Austen in the Popular Imagination; 2. Alberta H. Burke, Austen Omnivore; 3. Reading Like an Amateur; 4. Getting Closer to Austen: Literary Tourism; 5. Envisioning Austen: Portraits, Fiction, Film; 6. Austen Hybrids: Sex, Horror/Paranormal, Faith; 7. Imagining the Austen Fan; References; Index.