Title: Recreating Jane Austen
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.
Subjects: Adaptations, Appreciation, Criticism and interpretation, English Love stories, History, History and criticism, Women and literature, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, English Romance fiction, English literature, women authors, Critique et interprétation, Histoire et critique, Appréciation, Influence, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Art appreciation, Literature, Rezeption, Roman, Film
Places: England
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Time periods: 19th century