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Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination

Autor Dr Juliette Wells
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 ian 2012
The first bookto investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of hernovels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why theycreate works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge fromboth published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into thefounding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austencollection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austenportraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; andhybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicitChristianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about theimportance of literature and reading today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441176547
ISBN-10: 1441176543
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

New comprehensive analysis of Austen's influence on popular culture - covering print (various genres), online, screen and stage adaptations, societies & festivals and tourism

Notă biografică

Juliette Wells is Associate Professor of English at Manhattanville College, USA. She is editor (with Sandra Hagan) of The Brontës in the World of the Arts (Ashgate, 2008) and was features editor for the Penguin Classics enhanced e-book edition of Pride and Prejudice (2008).

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Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ Acknowledgments\ 1. Introduction: Approaching Austen inthe Popular Imagination \ 2. Alberta H. Burke, Austen Omnivore \ 3. ReadingLike an Amateur \ 4. Getting Closer to Austen: Literary Tourism \ 5.Envisioning Austen: Portraits, Fiction, Film \ 6. American Austen Hybrids: Sex,Horror/Paranormal, Faith \ 7. Coming Together Through Austen \ Bibliography \ Index

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'Juliette Wells's Everybody's Jane engagingly fills a surprising gap in the bulging Jane Austen bookshelves, surveying how and why this writer of six anonymously published novels attracts both young and old, female and male, and academics and amateurs. Professor Wells leads the reader, including this one, to think about why one loves and respects the same "Jane" who has sparked an Austen cottage industry of key chains, mugs, and Regency dressing, but who shunned fame and publicity in her own life.'
'At once affectionate and judicious, Everybody's Jane succeeds marvellously in revealing the energy and tremendous variety of the practices that amateur readers develop to make Jane Austen's works a part of their lives. Juliette Wells' stories of Austen-inspired fandom--of Austen tourism, collecting, fan fiction, and dating guides--amply reveal the creativity that resides within everyday acts of fandom.'
'A witty, erudite, and humane exploration of the varied ways that amateur readers of Jane Austen have sought closeness with the object of their affection, from collecting her works and visiting the places where she lived, to imagining Jane in novels and films - or most extremely, in hybrid creations that feature Elizabeth Bennett as a martial artist combating zombies, Jane Austen as a vampire, or her characters as paragons of evangelical faith. Juliette Wells approaches all these manifestations of fandom without disparagement and with an open mind.Her book, which is both learned and generous of spirit, illuminates the sometimes quirky cultural creativity that ensues when Austen's readers follow their desires to connect personally with their beloved author (and the woman behind the writing), and the enormous pull Austen and her works continue to exert on the popular imagination.'
'In her engaging and thoughtful book, Juliette Wells maps out Jane Austen country, from pastime to profession to publishing, so readers can enjoy and consider Austen's classic influence and the modern inventiveness of the popular imagination.'
'Once Jane Austen was merely a beloved author. Today she is a phenomenon, a mogul, a money-maker. In Everybody's Jane, Wells provides an encyclopaedic account of Austen in the popular culture, as she and her characters make movies, inspire pilgrimages, provide dating tips, solve crimes, fight zombies... Wells' research is prodigious, her material fascinating, and her style easy and readable.'
Juliette Wells surveys a breathtaking number of pop culture manifestations of Jane Mania utilizing sociological and statistical as well as literary methodology.