Jane Austen's House Museum GUYATT, MARY
Texas studies in literature and language,
12/2019, Letnik:
61, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
...once the interpretive content is agreed upon, how best do we integrate the layered hardware of display cases, text panels, audiovisuals, and touch screens? ...are there elements of the current ...presentation that are patently inauthentic? Originally a curator of architecture and design, her preparation for Jane Austen came by way of biographical exhibitions and a doctoral thesis combining the evidence of material culture, personal testimony, and works of fiction in a study of children's historical geographies.
CHAWTON HOUSE AND ESTATE BELONGED TO JANE AUSTEN'S brother Edward Austen Knight. Because of this, Jane Austen, her mother, and her sister, Cassandra, came to live in Chawton village, and the "Great ...House" occupies a special place in Jane Austen country as the setting for Austen and Knight family gatherings. A charity to support research into early writing by women in English, and to preserve the house and grounds for the benefit of the public, was founded in the 1990s and operated mainly as a dedicated research library, garnering a worldwide reputation as a place from which comes scholarship of excellence and renown. Katie Childs, with an impressive track record of working in great national institutions and government departments, took up the role of chief executive in February 2019, succeeding Dr. Gillian Dow, whose fourteen-year commitment to Chawton House secured its reputation as a research center of significance and worldwide reach.
Using Chawton House Library's "Novels Online," several corpora have been set up for a computer-aided textual analysis of the use of vocabulary by women writing "domestic novels" from 1752 to 1834. ...This corpus stylistics approach makes it possible to map texts according to their word usage and to identify quantitative keywords which provide vocabulary profiles through comparison and contrast with contemporary male and female canonical texts. Items identified include pronouns, markers of dialogue and of intensity; others can be grouped into specific lexical fields such as feelings. One text from the collection then forms the object of a case-study to explore a paradox: although Jane Taylor's use of vocabulary in her 1817 Rachel appears the most representative of the corpus made up of 42 novels by women, this Chawton text has been called "a highly original tale." Methodology and findings are both presented to address the challenge of identifying features which constitute typicality.
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Why Jane Austen?,
06/2011
Book Chapter
When I was in college in the 1950s, Jane Austen was the author of great works that were by the way delicious, six peaks of pink icing on the cake of English literature (or perhaps its rich center). ...As Deidre Lynch recalls, “R. W. Chapman’s 1923 edition of the novels for Clarendon Press was the first to bestow on a novelist the sort of editorial care previously reserved for the English canon’s dramatists and poets.”¹ Lynch (like Kathryn Sutherland after her) insists on the importance of Chapman’s being a classical scholar: his approach to the texts informed our reading of
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chalk hills to the south of Basingstoke, part of Hampshire's North
Downs. Buildings ...appear infilled and blocked in red ink at the
settlements of Bighton and Chawton, at the bottom of the plan, and
in black ink, at Bentworth, above Chawton. The map is drawn on an
irregularly cut sheet that is pieced together with detail extending
over the joins. The paper carries the watermark
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