Recreating Jane Austen
By: John Wiltshire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Love stories, English -- History and criticism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: i. Imagining Jane Austen's lie; title: 2. Recreating Jane Austen:JaneAusten in Manhattan,; title: Metropolitan, Clueless; title: 3. An Englishwoman's constitution:Jane Austen and; title: Shakespeare; title: 4. From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield; title: Park and Persuasion; title: 5. Pride and Prjudice, love and recognition; title: 6. The genius and the facilitating environment; title: Notes; title: A note onfilms cited; title: Bibbography; title: Index.