Juliette Wells

A New Jane Austen (eBook, ePUB)

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350365537
• Artikelnr.: 68314967

Autorenporträt

Juliette Wells is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of English at Goucher College, USA. An acclaimed speaker and writer for popular audiences, she is the author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and the editor of Penguin Classics' 200th-anniversary deluxe annotated editions of Austen's Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015).

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