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.
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity makes the bold assertion that Jane Austen’s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as ...to famous historical figures and landed estates. Janine Barchas is the first to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen’s fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online.
According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tantalizing tension between truth and invention which characterizes the realist novel. Of course, the argument that Austen deployed famous names presupposes an active celebrity culture during the Regency, a phenomenon recently accepted by scholars. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (such as Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were hugely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent.
Barchas re-situates Austen’s work nearer to the historical novels of her contemporary Sir Walter Scott than to the domestic and biographical perspectives that until recently have dominated Austen studies. This forward-thinking and revealing investigation offers scholars and ardent fans of Jane Austen a wealth of juicy historical facts, while shedding an interpretive light on a new aspect of the work of a much-beloved writer.
Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with ...the culture and politics of her age, Peter Knox-Shaw argues that Austen was a writer steeped in the Enlightenment, and that her allegiance to a sceptical tradition within it, shaped by figures such as Adam Smith and David Hume, lasted throughout her career. Knox-Shaw draws on archival and other neglected sources to reconstruct the intellectual atmosphere of the Steventon Rectory where Austen wrote her juvenilia, and follows the course of her work through the 1790s and onwards, showing how minutely responsive it was to the many shifting movements of those turbulent years. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment is an important contribution to the study both of Jane Austen and of intellectual history at the turn of the nineteenth century.
'Reading Austen in America' presents a colourful, 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.
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.
Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and ...corpora. The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language. The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora consisting of 1) Austen's six novels and 2) texts that are contemporary with Austen. The analyses demonstrate the impact of various features of text on literary meanings and how corpus tools can extract new critical angles. This book will be a key read for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates working in corpus linguistics and in stylistics on linguistics and language studies courses.
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. ‘Things’ in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly ...realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen’s and Woolf’s rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.
Jane Austen, game theorist Chwe, Michael Suk-Young; Chwe, Michael Suk-Young
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Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful ...new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago-over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War.Jane Austen, Game Theoristshows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Des! acuzä generalizarea unui model de cercetare inadecvat stiintelor sociale si umaniste (consideränd totusi interdisciplinaritatea о cale validä de studiu), Mihaela Ursa nu cedeazä retoricii ...alarmiste atât de prezente în domeniul nostru, ale cärui reflexe conservatoare nu se dezmint. Pe de о parte, vorbim de agregäri complexe de produse culturale gândite ca niste completäri ale unei lumi fictionale initiale, precum este jocul video Dante's Inferno, „prelungire" a operei marelui florentin, sau de universul cinematic Marvel, continând fire narative desprinse dintr-o pletorä de cärti de comics, dar si din vari! surse literare (Edda islandezä). Pe de altä parte, о ramificatie de mare complexitate în interiorul unei storyworld este si fandomul, care rezumä si completeazä dezvoltäri cinematografice de tip saga (precum Game of Thrones în competenta Wiki of Westerns'), aläturi de alte dezvoltäri si concretizäri de storyworlds din cele mal spectaculoase, precum „congresele" (convention) fanilor Star Wars sau reenactments ale episoadelor istorice de felul bätäliilor din Räzboiul Civil american, re-mediate ele însele prin intermediari textual!. Toemai mergând la púnetele nodale ale retelei transmediale, speculând glitch-urüe si folosindu-si competentele recunoscute, cercetarea literarä poate obtine rezultate care nu doar sä о „valideze" într-o epoeä postdisciplinarä si în orice caz postliterarä, ci sä recalibreze cercetarea literarä însâsi, valorificând chiar únele dintre zonele ei centrale, canonice.
Along with Shakespeare, Jane Austen (1775–1817) can be said to be the most widely studied author in the history of English literature. But unlike Shakespeare’s, her language has received little ...scholarly attention. This is especially true for the language of her letters. Jane Austen’s letters have been described as the equivalent of telephone conversations, and if you read them, you can almost hear her speak. The letters therefore take us as close to the spoken language of the period as you might hope to get. This study, for the first time, offers a detailed sociolinguistic account of all aspects of the language of her letters: spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. It also produces some evidence of pronunciation as well as of local dialect usage. The analysis shows Jane Austen to be rather idiosyncratic in her language use: she was consistent (if unusual) in her spelling preferences, not very innovative in her vocabulary, and not quite representative of grammatical developments of the times (though her usage differed depending on who she wrote to—her sister, her publisher, or her nieces and nephews). This study of Jane Austen’s private language use shows how she varied in her language use, just like all of us do today. It provides evidence both for a linguistic date for her unfinished novel The Watsons and for the interplay there must have been between the editors of her novels and her own linguistic preferences, in the field of spelling and otherwise.
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