Reading Austen in America
By: Juliette Wells
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781350012059; 9781350012042
Subjects: Books and reading; Appreciation; Reader-response criticism; Influence; Authors and readers
Description: "Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells--author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination--goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."--

"A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its readers. The origins of the first Austen novel printed in America; title: Tales of three copies : books, owners, and readers; title: An accomplished Scotswoman reads Austen abroad : Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America; title: Part two. Transatlantic Austen conversations. Enthusiasts connected through the "electric telegraph of genius" : the Quincy sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen family of Portsmouth; title: Collectors and bibliographers : Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford.