The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

Cheryl A. Wilson, Maria H. Frawley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429675263
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

First published anonymously, as 'a lady', Jane Austen is now among the world's most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen's works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I: Jane Austen's Works
• 1. Northanger Abbey and the Functions of Metafiction
• 2. Sense and Sensibility, Novel and Phenomenon
• 3. Pride and Prejudice: Not Altogether 'light & bright & sparkling'
• 4. The Novelty of Mansfield Park
• 5. Emma, a Heroine
• 6. The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion
• 7. The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen's Letters
• 8. 'Setting at Naught All Rules of Probable or Possible': Jane Austen's 'Juvenilia'
• Part II: Historicising Austen: A Sampling
• 9. Touching upon Jane Austen's Politics
• 10. 'A Picture of Real Life and Manners'? Austen, Burney, and Edgeworth
• 11. Jane Austen and the Georgian Novel
• 12. From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen's Reading
• 13. Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian
• 14. From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and Narrative
• 15. 'Bringing Her Business Forward': Jane Austen and Political Economy
• 16. Material Goods in Austen's Novels
• 17. Jane Austen and Music
• 18. 'All the Egotism of an Invalid': Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen's Sanditon
• 19. Jane Austen and the Whitewashed Past
• 20. They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Austen
• Part III: Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling
• 21. Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the Novels
• 22. Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen's Catch and Release
• 23. Austen's Literary Time
• 24. Austen, Masculinity, and Romanticism
• 25. Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-Sacrifice
• 26. 'Queer Austen' and Northanger Abbey
• 27. 'A Perfectly Swell Romance': Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy Criticism
• 28. Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu's La Famille Elliot (1821)
• 29. Jane Austen and the Social Sciences
• Part IV: Austen's Communities: A Sampling
• 30. Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'
• 31. 'It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together': JAS and JASNA
• 32. Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia Reproduction
• 33. 'You do not know her or her heart': Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-Off Fiction
• 34. Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and Brand
• 35. Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis
• 36. Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of Colour
• 37. Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen Fanfiction
• Part V: Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling
• 38. Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-first Century
• 39. Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and Films
• 40. Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen Online
• 41. Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White Privilege
• 42. Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary Instructors
• 43. Austen's Belief in Education: Sōseki, Nogami, and Sensibility
• 44. Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program
• Index