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Informationen zum Autor Claudia L. Johnson is Chair of the Department of English at Princeton University. Her previous books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (1988), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002), along with editions of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1998), Sense and Sensibility (2002), and Northanger Abbey (2003). Her forthcoming works include Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures , tracing permutations of "Jane mania" from 1817 to the present, and Raising the Novel, which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture. Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002, 2008), as well as several essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (2002, 2006). Klappentext Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career.* Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship* Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies* Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries Zusammenfassung Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors x List of Abbreviations xvii A Note to the Reader xviii Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite Part I The Life and the Texts 11 1 Jane Austen's Life and Letters 13 Kathryn Sutherland 2 The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality 31 Robert L. Mack 3 The Literary Marketplace 41 Jan Fergus 4 Texts and Editions 51 Brian Southam 5 Jane Austen, Illustrated 62 Laura Carroll and John Wiltshire Part II Reading the Texts 79 6 Young Jane Austen: Author 81 Juliet McMaster 7 Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility 91 Susan C. Greenfi eld 8 The Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen's Uses of Enchantment 101 Sonia Hofkosh 9 Re: Reading Pride and Prejudice : "What think you of books?" 112 Susan J. Wolfson 10 The Missed Opportunities of Mansfi eld Park 123 William Galperin 11 Emma : Word Games and Secret Histories 133 Linda Bree 12 Persuasion : The Gradual Dawning 143 Fiona Stafford 13 Sanditon and the Book 153 George Justice Part III Literary Genres and Genealogies 163 14 Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind 165 Margaret Anne Doody 15 Narrative Technique: Austen and Her Contemporaries 185 Jane Spencer 16 Time and Her Aunt 195 Michael Wood 17 Austen's Realist Play 206 Harry E. Shaw 18 Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing 216 Devoney Looser 19 Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling, and Print Culture 226 Miranda Burgess 2...
Table des matières
List of Illustrations.
A Note to the Reader.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: The Life and the Texts:.
Part II: Reading the Texts:.
Part III: Literary Genres and Genealogies:.
Part IV: Political, Social and Cultural Worlds:.
Part V: Reception and Reinvention:.
Primary Bibliography.
Bibliography.
Index
Commentaire
"The advantage is that the chapters tend to be manageable, clear, and focused - perfect, in fact, for assigning to undergraduate and beginning graduate students." (Notes and Queries, March 2010)
"This book would be a worthy addition to any university, school and even private library in a place where Austen is read and re-read." (Transnational Literature , May 2009)
"Austenites should be delighted with this comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies. [...] This should become a standard Austen reference. Highly recommended." (Choice, August 2009)
