Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate

A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revolutionizing our understanding of how Britain's best-loved novelist entered the canon, this book asserts that her enduring literary significance originated not in the UK but in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781350365506
• ISBN-10: 1350365505
• Artikelnr.: 67828639

Autorenporträt

Juliette Wells

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams,
critical editor and biographer
Chapter 2: Canonizing "the giant Jane": William Dean Howells, interpreter
and advocate
Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher
Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journals
Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G.
Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive
Afterword: Jane Austen Anew
Bibliography