Uses of Austen [electronic resource] : Jane's Afterlives /
Dow, Gillian.author.
Hanson, C.editor.
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-238) and index.
Introduction / Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson -- 'A genius for foretelling': Augustan Austen and future fiction / Deidre Lynch -- 'England's Jane': the legacy of Jane Austen in the fiction of Barbara Pym, Dodie Smith and Elizabeth Taylor / Maroula Joannou -- 'The future of Pemberley': Emma Tennant, the 'Classic progression' and literary trespassing / Rebecca Munford -- New approaches to Austen and the popular reader / Juliette Wells -- Jane Austen's life on page and screen / Julian North -- Letters to Jane: Austen, the letter and twentieth-century women's writing / William May -- At home with Jane: placing Austen in contemporary culture / Felicity James -- Uses of translation: the global Jane Austen / Gillian Dow -- The ethics of geography: women as readers and dancers in Gurinder Chadha's Bride and prejudice (2004) / Stephanie Jones -- 'Bin Laden a huge Jane Austen fan': Jane Austen in contemporary political discourse / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- What would Jane do? Postfeminist media uses of Austen and the Austen reader / Shelley Cobb.
This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
Sociology.
British literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
British and Irish Literature.