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.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2013

Print ISBN

9781349441808, 9781137034434

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Subtopic

Index

Index

Adams, Jeffrey, 38

Altman, Rick, 85

Andrew, Dudley, 84

Archer, Juliet, 9–10, 271–77

Arthus-Bertrand, Claude, 23–25

Armitage, Richard, 272

Arnaud, Pierre, 29

Artt, Sarah, 65–67

Atlanta Radio Theatre, 38

Austen, Cassandra, 107–10, 113, 121–23, 169, 173, 264

Austen, Frank, 264

Austen, George, 174

Austen, Henry, 109–10, 172, 174, 258–60, 268

Austen, Jane

audiobooks, 223–24, 226, 230

biographies

Becoming Jane Austen (2003), 266

A Biographical Notice of the Author (1817), 258

Jane Austen (2001), 266

Jane Austen: Her Life (1987), 264

Jane Austen, Her Life & Letters, a Family Record (1913), 261

Jane Austen: A Literary Life (1991), 266

Jane Austen’s World (2005), 61

Les Cinq Filles (1937), 27

The Life of Jane Austen (1984), 263

Memoir of Jane Austen (1871), 66, 73, 110, 129, 132, 137, 145–46, 259–62, 264

Only a Novel, the Double Life of Jane Austen (1978), 262–3

A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978), 255, 262

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (2013), 267

blogs, 6, 46–47, 61, 189

Chawton, 1, 3, 65, 74, 105, 107–9, 120–21, 130...

Cover
Title
One Introduction
Two Young Jane Austen and the First Canadian Novel: From Emily Montague to “Amelia Webster” and Love and Friendship
Three Jane Austen’s French Publications from 1815: A History of a Misunderstanding
Four Jane Austen on Old-Time Radio: Creating Imaginative Worlds
Five Jane Austen for Our Time: Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers (1987)
Six The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen
Seven Sweetening Jane: Equivalence through Genre and the Problem of Class in Austen Adaptations
Eight Inventing Jane: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community
Nine Hang a Right at the Abbey: Jane Austen and the Imagined City
Ten In Flesh and Blood: Jane Austen as a Postmodern Fictional Character
Eleven “One of Folly’s Puppies”: Austen and Animal Studies
Twelve “Jane Austen is My Homegirl”: American Janeites and the Ironic Postmodern Identity
Thirteen Pleasure and Profit: Re-presentations of Jane Austen’s Ever-Expanding Universe
Fourteen Teaching Jane Austen in Communist China, 1990–1996
Fifteen Jane Austen in the Classroom: Some Indian Responses
Sixteen Getting to Know Miss Jane Austen: Images of an Author
Seventeen Rewriting Austen: Two Interviews with Juliet Archer and Edward H. Carpenter
Notes on Contributors
Index

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