Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

First published anonymously, as 'a lady', Jane Austen is now among the world's most famous and highly revered authors. 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 and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl A. Frawley Wilson
• Assisted by: Maria H. Frawley (Editor), Cheryl A. Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032013275
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201327-5
• No. of pages: 602
• Series: Routledge Literature Companions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form