[PDF] Jane Austen And Her Readers 17861945 eBook

Author : Katie Halsey
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783080817

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‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen’s novels. It discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the aspects of her style that are related to the ways in which she has been read. The volume considers the role of editions and criticism in directing readers’ responses, and presents and analyses a variety of source material related to the ordinary readers who read Austen’s works between 1786 and 1945.

Author : Katie Halsey
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783080507

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‘Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786–1945’ is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen’s novels. It discusses Austen’s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and the aspects of her style that are related to the ways in which she has been read. The volume considers the role of editions and criticism in directing readers’ responses, and presents and analyses a variety of source material related to the ordinary readers who read Austen’s works between 1786 and 1945.

Author : Susan Allen Ford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350416738

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The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader, so it's perhaps no surprise that many of her characters are also readers-from Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice to Fanny Price in Mansfield Park. Beginning by looking at Austen's own reading as well as her interest in readers' responses to her work, the book then focuses on each of her novels, looking at the particulars of her characters' reading and unpacking the multiple (and often surprising) ways in which what they read informs our reading. What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why) uses Austen's own love of reading to invite us to rethink the ways in which she imagined her characters and their lives beyond the novels.

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350012076

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Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and why the first Austen novel printed in America-the 1816 Philadelphia Emma-came to be. She reveals the responses of this book's varied readers and creates an extended portrait of one: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie, a Scotswoman living in British North America. Through original archival research, Wells establishes the significance to reception history of two transatlantic friendships: the first between ardent Austen enthusiasts in Boston and members of Austen's family in the nineteenth century, and the second between an Austen collector in Baltimore and an aspiring bibliographer in England in the twentieth.

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350365521

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Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia. Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

Author : L. Raw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1137270764

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Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her novels affect individual psychologies and how Janeites experience her work, from visiting her home to public re-enactments to films based on her writings.

Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678

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A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 022615503X

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Johnson begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. She then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception.

Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826719

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This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

Author : Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107082633

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This essay collection by leading scholars provides a comprehensive guide to Jane Austen's Emma, one of the greatest English novels.