A New Jane Austen
eBook - ePub

A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350365506
eBook ISBN
9781350365537
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Austen for Americans, and for the World: Oscar Fay Adams, Critical Editor and Biographer
  9. 2 Canonizing “the giant Jane”: William Dean Howells, Interpreter and Advocate
  10. 3 Topaz Crosses Plus Treasures of Another Kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, Collector and Keeper of Reading Journals
  11. 4 A Labor of Love and Friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil Hassall, and the Building of a Transatlantic Austen Archive
  12. Afterword: Jane Austen Anew
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Copyright