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Reading Austen in America

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350012066

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Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells Pdf

Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and why the first Austen novel printed in America-the 1816 Philadelphia Emma-came to be. She reveals the responses of this book's varied readers and creates an extended portrait of one: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie, a Scotswoman living in British North America. Through original archival research, Wells establishes the significance to reception history of two transatlantic friendships: the first between ardent Austen enthusiasts in Boston and members of Austen's family in the nineteenth century, and the second between an Austen collector in Baltimore and an aspiring bibliographer in England in the twentieth.

Reading Austen in America

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 1350012084

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Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells Pdf

A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present

Jane Austen and her Readers, 17861945

Author : Katie Halsey
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783080816

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Jane Austen and her Readers, 17861945 by Katie Halsey Pdf

‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen’s novels. It discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the aspects of her style that are related to the ways in which she has been read. The volume considers the role of editions and criticism in directing readers’ responses, and presents and analyses a variety of source material related to the ordinary readers who read Austen’s works between 1786 and 1945.

Everybody's Jane

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441111166

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Everybody's Jane by Juliette Wells Pdf

The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.

The Lost Books of Jane Austen

Author : Janine Barchas
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421431598

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The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas Pdf

Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.

The Jane Austen Society

Author : Natalie Jenner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250248725

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The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner Pdf

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.

Camp Austen

Author : Ted Scheinman
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister

Author : Sheila Johnson Kindred
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773552081

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Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister by Sheila Johnson Kindred Pdf

In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between and lived in Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister, Fanny’s articulate and informative letters – transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context – disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how much she was an inspiration for Austen’s literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny’s story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women’s roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny’s life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction as well as for those interested in biography, women’s letters, and history of the family.

Among the Janeites

Author : Deborah Yaffe
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547757735

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Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe Pdf

With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.

The Talk in Jane Austen

Author : Jane Austen Society of North America
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0888643748

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The Talk in Jane Austen by Jane Austen Society of North America Pdf

Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen's sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue. Features contributions from Juliet McMaster, Isobel Grundy, Linda Bree, Gary Kelly, Jan Fergus, Jocelyn Harris, Kay Young and others.

A New Jane Austen

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350365537

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A New Jane Austen by Juliette Wells Pdf

Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia. Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

My Jane Austen Summer

Author : Cindy Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062078803

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My Jane Austen Summer by Cindy Jones Pdf

“When one has read the six great Austen novels…and then reread and then reread the six again, one’s only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the inimitable Austen—not to mention fans of more contemporary delights such as The Jane Austen Book Club. Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer is a delightful, funny, poignant novel in which a contemporary woman—an obsessed Austenphile—learns much about life, love, and herself during one magical summer in England spent re-enacting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.

A New Jane Austen

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350365520

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A New Jane Austen by Juliette Wells Pdf

Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia. Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice

Author : Jasmine A. Stirling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781547601110

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A Most Clever Girl: How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice by Jasmine A. Stirling Pdf

For fans of I Dissent and She Persisted -- and Jane Austen fans of all ages -- a picture book biography about the beloved and enduring writer and how she found her unique voice. Witty and mischievous Jane Austen grew up in a house overflowing with words. As a young girl, she delighted in making her family laugh with tales that poked fun at the popular novels of her time, stories that featured fragile ladies and ridiculous plots. Before long, Jane was writing her own stories-uproariously funny ones, using all the details of her life in a country village as inspiration. In times of joy, Jane's words burst from her pen. But after facing sorrow and loss, she wondered if she'd ever write again. Jane realized her writing would not be truly her own until she found her unique voice. She didn't know it then, but that voice would go on to capture readers' hearts and minds for generations to come.

Jane Austen in the Classroom

Author : Louise Flavin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820468118

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Jane Austen in the Classroom by Louise Flavin Pdf

Due in part to the many film and video releases in the last decade of the twentieth century, there is a renewed interest in Jane Austen in high school and college classrooms. As an educational resource, Jane Austen in the Classroom helps teachers to guide readers who are being introduced to these novels - as well as readers who know and love Austen's works - through the process of «viewing the novel», reading Austen with an imaginative eye, and «reading the film», analyzing the adaptations as re-creations of Austen's cultural and fictional worlds. This book references the latest critical analyses of the novels and the videos. As a pedagogical tool, the text is a valuable resource for educators and students of the British novel and literature by women, offering innovative approaches to discussion, analysis, writing, and research.