1. Edition - January 2009
135.- Euro
2009. 560 Pages, Hardcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 1-4051-4909-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4909-9 - John Wiley & Sons









Short description
A Companion to Jane Austen provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies while covering the full breadth of the novelist's work and career. Focusing on changing contexts and cultures of reception, the text provides groundbreaking new interpretations in more than forty essays by a distinguished team of influential literary critics and Austen scholars. As a scholarly reference and comprehensive survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field, A Companion to Jane Austen illuminates the power of Austen's novels to enchant readers.

From the contents
List of Illustrations.

A Note to the Reader.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Claudia L. Johnson (Princeton University) and Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne).

Part I: The Life and the Texts:.

1. Jane Austen's Life and Letters: Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford).

2. The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality: Robert Mack (University of Exeter).

3. The Literary Marketplace: Jan Fergus (Lehigh University).

4. Texts and Editions: Brian Southam.

5. Jane Austen, Illustrated: Laura Carroll (La Trobe University, Melbourne) and John Wiltshire (La Trobe University, Melbourne).

Part II: Reading the Texts:.

6. Young Jane Austen: Author: Juliet McMaster (University of Alberta).

7. Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility: Susan Greenfield (Fordham University).

8. Austen the Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and Austen's Uses of Enchantment: Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts University).

9. Re-Reading Pride and Prejudice: "What think you of books?": Susan Wolfson (Princeton University).

10. The Missed Opportunities of Mansfield Park: William Galperin (Rutgers University).

11. Emma: Wordgames and Secret Histories: Linda Bree (Cambridge University Press).

12. Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning of Greatness: Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford).

13. Sanditon and the Book: George Justice (University of Missouri).

Part III: Literary Genres and Genealogies:.

14. Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind: Margaret Anne Doody (University of Notre Dame).

15. Narrative Technique: Austen and her Contemporaries: Jane Spencer (University of Exeter).

16. Time and her Aunt: Michael Wood (Princeton University).

17. Austen's Realist Play: Harry Shaw (Cornell University).

18. Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing: Devoney Looser (University of Missouri).

19. Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling and Print Culture: Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia).

20. The Gothic Austen: Nancy Armstrong (Brown University).

Part IV: Political, Social and Cultural Worlds:.

21. From Politics to Silence: Jane Austen's Non-Referential Aesthetic: Mary Poovey (New York University).

22. The army, the navy and the Napoleonic Wars: Gillian Russell (Australian National University).

23. Jane Austen, the 1790s and the French Revolution: Mary Spongberg (Macquarie University).

24. Feminisms: Vivien Jones (University of Leeds).

25. Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park: Deirdre Coleman (University of Melbourne).

26. Jane Austen and the Nation: Claire Lamont (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

27. Religion: Roger E. Moore (Vanderbilt University).

28. Family Matters: Ruth Perry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

29. Austen and Masculinity: E.J. Clery (University of Southampton).

30. The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodification of Sociability: Barbara Benedict (Trinity College, CT).

31. Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in Austen's Narratives: Diego Saglia (University of Parma).

32. Austen's Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine: Gillen D'Arcy Wood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

33. Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory and Enculturation: Daniel O'Quinn (University of Guelph).

Part V: Reception and Reinvention:.

34. Jane Austen and Genius: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto).

35. Jane Austen's Periods: Mary Favret (Indiana University-Bloomington).

36. Nostalgia: Nicholas Dames (Columbia University).

37. Austen's European Reception: Anthony Mandal (Cardiff University).

38. Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel: Edward Copeland (Pomona College, Claremont).

39. Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas: Katie Trumpener (Yale University).

40. Sexuality: Fiona Brideoake (University of Melbourne).

41. Jane Austen and popular culture: Judy Simons (De Montfort University).

42. Austenean Subcultures: Mary Ann O'Farrell (Texas A&M University).

Primary Bibliography.

Bibliography.

Index