Jane Austen''s Cults and Cultures

Shows how Jane Austen became "Jane Austen". The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception - the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949.

About the author

Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

Shows how Jane Austen became "Jane Austen". The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception - the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia L. Johnson, Claudia L. (Princeton?

  clara Tuite Johnson, Claudia L. (Princeton?

  Clara Tuite: University of Melbourne?) Johnson, Claudia L. (Princeton?

  Clara Tuite: University of Melbourne?) Johnson, Johnson Claudia L.

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2014
• EAN: 9780226155036
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15503-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form