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Recreating Jane Austen

John Wiltshire
Recreating Jane Austen Book PDF

Author : John Wiltshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521002826

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Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen s work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen s novels, John Wiltshire examines how they have been transposed and recreated in another age and medium. Wiltshire illuminates the process of recreation through the work of the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, and offers Jane Austen s own relation to Shakespeare as a suggestive parallel. Exploring the romantic impulse in Austenian biography, Jane Austen as a commodity, and offering a re-interpretation of Pride and Prejudice, this book approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination.

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen

Hilary Davidson
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Author : Hilary Davidson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300218725

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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen by Hilary Davidson Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.

The Hidden Jane Austen

John Wiltshire
The Hidden Jane Austen Book PDF

Author : John Wiltshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107061873

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The Hidden Jane Austen by John Wiltshire Pdf

This book reveals Austen's unique ability to penetrate the hidden inner motives of her characters through compelling new readings of her novels.

Jane Austen

John Wiltshire
Jane Austen Book PDF

Author : John Wiltshire
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023000749X

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Jane Austen by John Wiltshire Pdf

This volume brings together lively and refreshing articles by a prominent Jane Austen scholar which have been reworked especially for the present collection. John Wiltshire explores the key themes and issues that Austen's novels raise for modern readers, and explore the controversies currently surrounding the author's work. Approachable and well-written, Wiltshire's essays encourage students to question conventional readings and consider Austen in a new light.

In the Garden with Jane Austen

Kim Wilson
In the Garden with Jane Austen Book PDF

Author : Kim Wilson
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 071122594X

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In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson Pdf

Jane Austen loved a garden. She took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town, and public gardens and parks. Some of the gardens she owned or knew exist still in some form today; among the gardens highlighted is the restored garden at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, complete with a sample planting plan of the flowers grown there now. The book also includes touring information for gardens featured in film adaptations of the novels. With lush photos, social history, excerpts from the novels, information on her life, and period drawings, this book brings Georgian and Regency gardens and Jane Austen’s world to life. In the Garden with Jane Austen captures the essence and beauty of the traditional English garden. As the heroine of Mansfield Park Fanny Price observes, “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park

Marcia McClintock Folsom,John Wiltshire
Approaches to Teaching Austen s Mansfield Park Book PDF

Author : Marcia McClintock Folsom,John Wiltshire
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291996

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Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park by Marcia McClintock Folsom,John Wiltshire Pdf

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the twentieth century that formal and sustained criticism began of this work, which addresses the controversies of its time more than Austen's earlier novels did. Lionel Trilling praised Mansfield Park for exploring the difficult moral life of modernity; Edward Said brought postcolonial theory to the study of the novel; and twenty-first-century critics scrutinize these and other approaches to build on and go beyond them. This volume is the third in the MLA Approaches series to deal with Austen's work (Pride and Prejudice and Emma were the subject of the first and second volumes on Austen, respectively). It provides information about editions, film adaptations, and digital resources, and then nineteen essays discuss various aspects of Mansfield Park, including the slave trade, the theme of reading, elements of tragedy, gift theory, landscape design, moral improvement in the spirit of Samuel Johnson and of the Reformation, sibling relations, card playing, and interpretations of Fanny Price, the heroine, not as passive but as having some control.

Dinner with Mr Darcy

Pen Vogler
Dinner with Mr Darcy Book PDF

Author : Pen Vogler
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781782499145

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Dinner with Mr Darcy by Pen Vogler Pdf

'A delightful collection of Austen-inspired dishes' – Bee Wilson, Stella Magazine 'It's a great idea - a book that you can read as well as cook from, and one that, uniquely, sends you straight back to the novels themselves' – Telegraph Online 'In this charming bit of historical reconstruction, Pen Vogler takes authentic recipes from Austen's time and updates them for today. You'll find everything you need to recreate Netherfield Ball in your front room.' – Kathryn Hughes, The best books on food, The Guardian Enter Jane Austen's world through the kitchens and dining rooms of her characters, and her own family. Food is an important theme in Jane Austen's novels - it is used as a commodity for showing off, as a way of showing kindliness among neighbours, as part of the dynamics of family life, and - of course - for comic effect. Dinner with Mr Darcy takes authentic recipes from the period, inspired by the food that features in Austen's novels and letters, and adapts them for contemporary cooks. The text is interwoven throughout with quotes from the novels, and feature spreads cover some of the key themes of food and eating in Austen's time, including table arrangements, kitchens and gardens, changing mealtimes, and servants and service. Whether you are hoping to beguile a single gentleman in possession of a substantial fortune, or you just want to have your own version of the picnic on Box Hill in Emma, you will find fully updated recipes using easily available ingredients to help you recreate the dishes and dining experiences of Jane Austen's characters and their contemporaries.

Jane Austen and Co.

Suzanne R. Pucci,James Thompson
Jane Austen and Co Book PDF

Author : Suzanne R. Pucci,James Thompson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487389

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Jane Austen and Co. by Suzanne R. Pucci,James Thompson Pdf

Jane Austen and Co. explores the ways in which classical novels—particularly, but not exclusively, those of Jane Austen—have been transformed into artifacts of contemporary popular culture. Examining recent films, television shows, Internet sites, and even historical tours, the book turns from the question of Austen's contemporary appeal to a broader consideration of other late-twentieth-century remakes, including Dangerous Liaisons, Dracula, Lolita, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Taken together, the essays in Jane Austen and Co. offer a wide-ranging model for understanding how all of these texts—visual, literary, touristic, British, American, French—reshape the past in the new fashions, styles, media, and desires of the present. Contributors include Virginia L. Blum, Mike Crang, Madeline Dobie, Denise Fulbrook, Deidre Lynch, Sarah Maza, Ruth Perry, Suzanne R. Pucci, Kristina Straub, James Thompson, Maureen Turim, and Martine Voiret.

Jane Austen on Film and Television

Sue Parrill
Jane Austen on Film and Television Book PDF

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481415

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Jane Austen on Film and Television by Sue Parrill Pdf

Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation of an Austen novel was made for theatrical release until 1995. Amazingly, during 1995 and 1996, six film and television adaptations appeared, first Clueless, then Persuasion, followed by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, the Miramax Emma, and the Meridian/A&E Emma. This book traces the history of film and television adaptations (nearly 30 to date) of Jane Austen manuscripts, compares the adaptations to the manuscripts, compares the way different adaptations treat the novels, and analyzes the adaptations as examples of cinematic art. The first of seven chapters explains why the novels of Jane Austen have become a popular source of film and television adaptations. The following six chapters each cover one of Austen's novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main events of the novel. Then a history of the adaptations is presented followed by an analysis of the unique qualities of each adaptation, a comparison of these adaptations to each other and to the novels on which they are based, and a reflection of relevant film and literary criticism as it applies to the adaptations.

Jane in Love

Rachel Givney
Jane in Love Book PDF

Author : Rachel Givney
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063019096

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"Artfully written and engaging, Jane in Love is a lively effusion of wit and humor."—Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project A charming, romantic debut novel in which Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years in the future. There she finds the love she's written about and the destiny she's dreamed of...but is it worth her legacy? Bath, England, 1803. At 28, Jane Austen prefers walking and reading to balls and assemblies; she dreams of someday publishing her carefully crafted stories. Already on the shelf and in grave danger of becoming a spinster, Jane goes searching for a radical solution—and as a result, seemingly by accident, time-travels. She lands in... Bath, England, present day. The film set of Northanger Abbey. Sofia Wentworth is a Hollywood actress starring in a new period film, an attempt to reinvent her flagging career and, secretly, an attempt to reinvent her failing marriage. When Sofia meets Jane, she marvels at the young actress who can’t seem to "break character," even off set. And Jane—acquainting herself with the horseless steel carriages and seriously shocking fashion of the twenty-first century— meets Sofia, a woman unlike anyone she’s ever met before. Then she meets Fred, Sofia’s brother, who has the audacity to be handsome, clever, and kind-hearted. What happens when Jane, against her better judgement, falls in love with Fred? And when Sofia learns the truth about her new friend Jane? And worst of all, if Jane stays with Fred, will she ever achieve her dream, the one she's now seen come true?

Jane Austen in Hollywood

Linda Troost,Sayre N. Greenfield
Jane Austen in Hollywood Book PDF

Author : Linda Troost,Sayre N. Greenfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813190061

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Jane Austen in Hollywood by Linda Troost,Sayre N. Greenfield Pdf

In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number. More amazing, all were critical and/or box office successes. What accounts for this explosion of interest? Much of the appeal of these films lies in our nostalgic desire at the end of the millennium for an age of greater politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness also appeals to our fin de siècle sensibilities. The novels were changed, however, to enhance their appeal to a wide popular audience, and the revisions reveal much about our own culture and its values. These recent productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him conform to modern expectations. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield present fourteen essays examining the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, providing thoughtful and sympathetic insights on the films through a variety of critical approaches. The contributors debate whether these productions enhance or undercut the subtle feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice, from the three Emmas (including Clueless ) to Sense and Sensibility, these films succeed because they flatter our intelligence and education. And they have as much to tell us about ourselves as they do about the world of Jane Austen. This second edition includes a new chapter on the recent film version of Mansfield Park.

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Book PDF

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532404757

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

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Jane Austen and the Body

John Wiltshire
Jane Austen and the Body Book PDF

Author : John Wiltshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521414760

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Jane Austen and the Body by John Wiltshire Pdf

Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax and the "picture of health," Emma. The book draws on modern theories of the body, and on eighteenth-century medical sources, to give a fresh and controversial reading of familiar texts.

Jane Austen's Persuasion

John Wiltshire
Jane Austen s Persuasion Book PDF

Author : John Wiltshire
Publisher : Connell Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1911187317

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Jane Austen's Persuasion by John Wiltshire Pdf

Persuasion is now probably the favourite Austen book after Pride and Prejudice. It tells the story of a life that might have been wasted, but is redeemed by love. It is a story by anyone who believes in second chances, or, in Tony Tanner’s words “to anyone who has experienced the sense of an irreparably ruined owing to an irrevocable mistaken decision”. While Pride and Prejudice was written when Austen was a young, marriageable woman, Persuasion was written when she was in her forties, and it features a heroine who, at twenty-seven, could in those days be destined, like Austen herself, to life as a spinster. As John Wiltshire, one of the best modern critics of Austen shows in this guide, the atmosphere of the two books is quite different, like the social world they depict – one “light and bright and sparkling” as Jane Austen herself called it, the other more sombre, shadowed by several deaths, and sometimes gentle and sometimes savage in its irony. But Persuasion has endeared itself to readers because the romance it celebrates takes place so convincingly within a constricting and believable social world. It’s a love story for adults. Anne Elliot is quiet, accommodating, kind and thoughtful, but Jane Austen avoids making her a picture of perfection by inviting the reader into her consciousness. We see that she is watchful of herself, critical of herself, aware of her own self-deceptions, but at the same time subject to impulses and longings, to the dreams and sexual desires we all share.

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort Of) (NHB Modern Plays)

Isobel McArthur
Pride and Prejudice sort Of NHB Modern Plays Book PDF

Author : Isobel McArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1839040467

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Pride and Prejudice* (*sort Of) (NHB Modern Plays) by Isobel McArthur Pdf

A loving and irreverent all-female adaptation of Jane Austen's unrivalled literary classic.