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- Book Title
- Making of Jane Austen
- Publication Name
- The Making of Jane Austen
- Title
- The Making of Jane Austen
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1421422824
- EAN
- 9781421422824
- ISBN
- 9781421422824
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- General, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Release Date
- 22/08/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Number of Pages
- 308 Pages
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An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name. Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs. Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421422824
ISBN-13
9781421422824
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234812721
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making of Jane Austen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
308 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr4038.I52l66 2017
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College Graduate Student
Reviews
The Making of Jane Austen presents a compelling history of how the phenomenon of 'Jane! Austen!' came to be..., "overall, The Making of Jane Austen presents a compelling history of how the phenomenon of "Jane! Austen!" came to be...", The Making of Jane Austen is both an essential, rigorously researched text for serious Austen scholars and an irresistibly lively reading experience for even the most newly initiated of Janeites., ""Eminently readable and suitably polemical in places, The Making of Jane Austen will be of supreme interest not only to Austen scholars but to anyone seeking a fit model for unpicking the formation of a literary or historical reputation... With an enviable gift for marshalling unwieldy anecdotes, Looser has with outstanding energy and rigor traversed such places like no one else before her."", An informative and delightful read for literary lovers who want to learn more about one of the most celebrated authors of all time, The Making of Jane Austen puts the famed novelist in a whole new light., An informative and delightful read for literary lovers who want to learn more about one of the most celebrated authors of all time, The Making of Jane Austen will puts the famed novelist in a whole new light., Clearly organized into sections that dive deeply into the illustrated, the dramatized, and the politicized Austen as well as Austen pedagogy, from the first dissertation to the McGuffey Reader, The Making of Jane Austen provides a review of how Austen's image was shaped and shifted over time by those who marketed her work in books, films, and texts. Looser also looks at how both anti-suffrage men and suffragettes used Austen to prop up their viewpoint as people continue to look to Austen for conservative and liberal ideas. It seems Austen is almost biblical in her ability to be all things to all people., One of the most fascinating sections... consequently takes in the wildly different approaches of [Austen's] early illustrators., "In this brilliant new view of Austen, Devoney Looser tells us as much about what we want and need from our literary celebrities as it does about "Aunt Jane" herself.", In this brilliant new view of Austen, Devoney Looser tells us as much about what we want and need from our literary celebrities as [she] does about 'Aunt Jane' herself., In this brilliant new view of Austen, Devoney Looser tells us as much about what we want and need from our literary celebrities as it does about 'Aunt Jane' herself., The book offers insightful close reading of several nineteenth-century illustrations of Austen's fiction., Looser's book is full of forgotten performances, artists, and remakes, showing that Austen has long been enlisted to play a variety of roles., [Looser's] arguments are refreshing and balanced. The Making of Jane Austen lovingly unveils Austen's posthumous journey to become a permanent fixture in classic English literature., [A] fascinating new study of some of the ways Austen has been used by illustrators, actors, and activists..., Eminently readable and suitably polemical in places, The Making of Jane Austen will be of supreme interest not only to Austen scholars but to anyone seeking a fit model for unpicking the formation of a literary or historical reputation... With an enviable gift for marshalling unwieldy anecdotes, Looser has with outstanding energy and rigor traversed such places like no one else before her., Looser's book gives us a much-needed historical perspective, showing that the most cutting-edge and the most retrograde interpretations of Austen have a deeper history than we have imagined., Looser's book reminds us both how much invention has always been involved in creating Austen's literary reputation, and how frequently that invention has involved suppressing or distorting the voices of women and others who are not part of the dominant discourse. It is therefore also an important contribution to feminist scholarship more broadly, and to the growing body of scholarship that attempts to hear and recuperate the voices of the marginalized and oppressed., ... what The Making of Jane Austen offers the reader is a brilliant narrative that ends in hope. The story of how Jane Austen became, in Looser's words, 'Jane! Austen!' (p. 11), is a meandering tale with unlikely participants, unexpected twists, and a great deal of humour., Looser is a sober and conscientiously corrective guide, constantly prompting us to historicise the conventional ways in which we conceive of Austen... This is a studious and sensible book, driven by a commitment to shedding light on Austen's work and context., Devoney Looser's delightfully discontinuous history signals straightaway the materiality of its Subject and its place between scholarly and popular mythologies. More subtly, it coaxes the reader to confront her own self in the act of 'making' Austen... Her inclusive, imaginative account is an important marker in the critical turn toward 'matters of fact,' building upon work by Janine Barchas, Claudia Johnson, and Kathryn Sutherland that historicizes Austen's referential texts, their reception, and her gradual institutionalization., [W]hat The Making of Jane Austen offers the reader is a brilliant narrative that ends in hope. The story of how Jane Austen became, in Looser's words, 'Jane! Austen!', is a meandering tale with unlikely participants, unexpected twists, and a great deal of humour., Written with wit and in pleasing yet learned prose, the book bridges well the gap between academic and popular writing... Altogether, new information for scholars and fans and great fun. Highly recommended., A groundbreaking effort to broaden the conversation about Austen's influence in terms of both content and audience, The Making of Jane Austen represents a major contribution to the fast-growing area of Austen reception studies and will be remembered as a book of the decade in Austen scholarship more generally., Devoney Looser's latest full-scale contribution to Austen studies is an original, important and well-written book. It is valuable for the highly unusual areas she studies, for information about and clear descriptions of texts probably unknown to many Austen scholars and/or Janeites alike (this is a feat), for the critical intelligence and close reading she applies to some of these; and, for her tales of poignant lives of a few people who ought to be remembered for the significant contribution they made to the ways many people read Austen's texts today., "Devoney Looser's delightfully discontinuous history signals straightaway the materiality of its Subject and its place between scholarly and popular mythologies. More subtly, it coaxes the reader to confront her own self in the act of "making" Austen.", [A] fascinating new study of some of the ways Austen has been used by illustrators, actors, and activists.
Table of Content
Introduction: Jane Austen Matters Part I: Jane Austen, Illustrated 1. Austen's First English Illustrator: Ferdinand Pickering's Vioctorian Sensationalism 2. Visual Austen Experiments: From Lush Landscapes to Bearded Heroes 3. A Golden Age for Illustrated Austen: From Peacocks to Photoplays Part II: Jane Austen, Dramatized 4. Austen's First Dramatist: Rosina Filippi's Duologues for Every Cultivated Amateur 5. Playing Mr. Darcy before Laurence Olivier: Cross Dressing, Consuming Passion, and Cracking the Whip 6. Dear Jane: Christian Spinster, Feminist Flirt, and Shadow Actress 7. Stage to Screen Pride and Prejudice: Hollywood's Austen and Its Unrealized Screenplays Part III: Jane Austen, Politicized 8. The Night of the Divine Jane: Men's Club Clashes and Politics in the Periodical Press 9. Stone-Throwing Jane Austen: Suffragist Street Activism, Grand Pageants, and Costume Parties Part IV: Jane Austen, Schooled 10. The First Jane Austen Dissertation: George Pellew and the Human Telephone 11. Textbook Austens: From McGuffey's Readers to National Lampoon Coda: Twenty-First Century Jane Austen Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: Suggested Further Reading Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-041514
Dewey Decimal
823/.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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