The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wilson, Cheryl A.; Frawley, Maria H.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen's works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429675263
• Artikelnr.: 62583628

Autorenporträt

Cheryl A. Wilson is Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Stevenson University. In 2012, she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar "Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries" with Devoney Looser and several other Routledge Companion contributors. She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2009), Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel (2012), and Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine (2017). Maria H. Frawley is a Professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England; Anne Bronte; an edition of Harriet Martineau's Life in the Sick-Room, and Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, in addition to essays on nineteenth-century women writers, including Jane Austen. She is at work on a book titled Keywords of Jane Austen's Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Part I

Jane Austen's Works

1. Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction


Jodi L. Wyett




2. Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon


Peter Graham




3. Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether 'light & bright & sparkling'


Susan J. Wolfson


4. The Novelty of Mansfield Park




Emily Rohrbach


5. Emma, a Heroine


George Justice


6. The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion




Michael D. Lewis


7. The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen's Letters


Jodi A. Devine


8. 'Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible': Jane Austen's 'Juvenilia'


John C. Leffel

Part II

Historicizing Austen: A Sampling


9. Touching upon Jane Austen's Politics


Devoney Looser


10. 'A Picture of Real Life and Manners'? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth


Linda Bree


11. Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel


Elaine Bander


12. From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen's Reading


Katie Halsey


13. Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian




Tara Goshal Wallace


14. From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and Narrative


Laura M. White


15. 'Bringing her Business Forward': Jane Austen and Political Economy


Sarah Comyn


16. Material Goods in Austen's Novels


Sandie Byrne


17. Jane Austen and Music


Laura Voracheck


18. 'All the Egotism of an Invalid': Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen's Sanditon




Sarah Marsh


19. Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past


Olivia Murphy


20. They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen


Lyndon J. Dominique

Part III

Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling


21. Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the Novels


Adela Pinch


22. Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen's Catch and Release


William Galperin


23. Austen's Literary Time


Amit Yahav


24. Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism


Sarah Ailwood


25. Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice


Kathleen Anderson


26. 'Queer Austen' and Northanger Abbey




Susan Celia Greenfield


27. 'A Perfectly Swell Romance': Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy Criticism


Paula Marantz Cohen


28. Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu's La Famille Elliot (1821)


Rachel Canter


29. Jane Austen and the Social Sciences


Wendy Jones

Part IV

Austen's Communities: A Sampling




30. Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'


Susan Allen Ford


31. 'It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together': JAS and JASNA


Alice Marie Villaseñor


32. Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction


Christopher C. Nagle


33. 'You do not know her or her heart': Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-off Fiction


Kylie Mirmohamadi


34. Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand


Marina Cano


35. Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis


Laaleen Sukhera


36. Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of Colour


Sigrid Michelle Anderson


37. Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction


Melanie Borrego

Part V

Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling


38. Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century


Michael Gamer and Katrina O'Loughlin


39. Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films


Martha Stoddard Holmes


40. Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online


Gillian Dow and Kim Simpson


41. Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege


Tim Black and Danielle Spratt


42. Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary Instructors


Juliette Wells


43. Austen's Belief in Education: S seki, Nogami, and Sensibility


Kimiyo Ogawa


44. Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program

Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton