Camp Austen

Author : Ted Scheinman
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712341

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Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman Pdf

A raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. While the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations, undaunted scholars in cravats, and unseemly petticoat fittings. In a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir, academic savvy with insider knowledge, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings, culinary etiquette, and scandalous dance partners, this is summer camp like you’ve never seen it before.

Author : Kerry Sinanan,Annika Bautz,Daniel Cook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031083723

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Austen After 200 by Kerry Sinanan,Annika Bautz,Daniel Cook Pdf

Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen’s popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse cultural venues such the digisphere, blogosphere, festivals and book clubs. It then offers new approaches to the novels within various critical contexts, including adaptation studies, fan fiction, intertextuality, and more. Collecting these new essays in one volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements with Austen in different settings, and will help a comparative approach between the popular and the academic to emerge more fully in Austen studies. The book gathers insights from a range of contributors invested in new reading spaces in order to show the creative ways in which we are all adapting as we continue to read Austen’s works.

Author : George Holbert Tucker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 0312126883

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Jane Austen the Woman by George Holbert Tucker Pdf

Author : Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429675263

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The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen by Cheryl A. Wilson,Maria H. Frawley Pdf

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.

Author : Jocelyn Harris
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488432

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Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen by Jocelyn Harris Pdf

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher, and a keen political observer. In Mansfield Park, she appears to base Fanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticize the royal heir as unfit to rule, and expose Susan Burney’s cruel husband through Mr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.

Author : Nora Nachumi,Stephanie M. Oppenheim,Stephanie Oppenheim
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Desire in literature
ISBN : 9781648250071

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Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance by Nora Nachumi,Stephanie M. Oppenheim,Stephanie Oppenheim Pdf

The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.

Author : Juliet McMaster,Bruce Stovel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349246809

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Jane Austen's Business by Juliet McMaster,Bruce Stovel Pdf

Jane Austen's Business is a collection of essays that demonstrates Austen knew her business. She presents with memorable distinctness not only 'what sees keenly, speaks aptly, moves flexibly' but also 'what throbs fast and full' (Charlotte Bronte's phrases). Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, are based on papers given at the Lake Louise conference on Persuasion. The collection's culmination is a short story by Margaret Drabble that brings Austen's Elliots of Kellynch Hall into the twentieth century.

Author : J. McMaster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230375468

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Jane Austen the Novelist by J. McMaster Pdf

In these informed and entertaining essays, Juliet McMaster's recurring concern is with the interpenetration of intelligence with emotion among Jane Austen's characters. The author, a leading Jane Austen scholar, begins with an exploration of Austen's burgeoning popularity in our culture, though close studies of lesser-well known works such as 'Love and Friendship' and 'The Watsons', and familiar texts such as 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma', moving on to a wide-ranging exploration through all the novels, of the operation of love and the articulation of desire.

Author : Bharat Tandon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843313915

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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation by Bharat Tandon Pdf

An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.

Author : Susan Andrews
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798743375356

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Camp Jane by Susan Andrews Pdf

"So, where are you headed?" Maggie asked her fellow traveler. "Upstate to a resort in the Catskill mountains," she responded shyly. "I won an essay contest and got invited to this Regency-era theme resort for the summer, all expenses paid and ..." "Camp Jane " Maggie exclaimed. "You're going to Camp Jane, too?" "You too? You're an Austen essay winner?" "Most ardently, yes!" They laughed and hugged like old friends. What if you could spend a summer as the Austen character you most resemble in a lush resort setting surrounded by the other quirky characters from Jane's novels? Maggie Argyle has just that prospect ahead of her. This book is in the tradition of Austenland. Join a cast of Austen favorites as the winners rally round for laughter, love, camaraderie and intrigue, a summer of pure Jane fun.

Author : Reeta Sahney
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8170172713

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Jane Austen's Heroes and Other Male Characters by Reeta Sahney Pdf

JANE AUSTEN’S HEROES is a sociological study of her half a dozen novels from what was most difficult to master life’s small measures, till her disc became her orb. The book deals with a few important questions whether Austen’s men, heroes and other male characters are protagonists of what she stood for. Does she create fully rounded characterisations of men or make them tangential, partisan studies? Does Austen fulfil the Freudian new scientific concept of id which contains everything that is inherited? Is she influenced by the revolutionary implications of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women†? Is she a Marxist Feminist or a Remorseless realist in terms of Lukacs true great realism or an incurable Romantic? The book is a meticulous, useful and a thorough study of Austen and her times.

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226401393

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Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson Pdf

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, examines the conventions of male inheritance and its negative impact on attempts to define the family as a site of care and generosity in Sense and Sensibility, makes claims for the desirability of 'personal happiness as a liberating moral category' in Pride and Prejudice, validates the rights of female authority in Emma, and stresses the benefits of female independence in Persuasion, Johnson offers an original and persuasive reassessment of Jane Austen's thought."—Kate Fullbrook, Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Gregg A. Hecimovich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441134936

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Austen's Emma by Gregg A. Hecimovich Pdf

Emma is one of Jane Austen's most popular novels, in large part due to the impact of Emma Woodhouse, the "handsome, clever and rich" heroine. This lively, informed and insightful guide to Emma explores the style, structure, themes, critical reputation and literary influence of Jane Austen's classic novel and also discusses its film and TV versions. It includes points for discussion, suggestions for further study and an annotated guide to relevant reading. This introduction to the text is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on the literary and historical context, reading the text, the critical reception and publishing history, adaptation and interpretation and a guide to further reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015037382887

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Preliminary Inventory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135246068

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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Robert Morrison Pdf

This guide takes the form of a sourcebook, combining reprinted contextual and critical documents with extensive introductory comment and annotation by the volume editor.