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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Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media.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.

Author Biography

Cheryl A. Wilson is Professor of English and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Stevenson University. In 2012, she participated in the NEH Summer Seminar "Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries" with Devoney Looser and several other Routledge Companion contributors. She is the author of Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2009), Fashioning the Silver Fork Novel (2012), and Jane Austen and the Victorian Heroine (2017).Maria H. Frawley is a Professor of English at The George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature. She is the author of A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England; Anne Bronte; an edition of Harriet Martineau's Life in the Sick-Room, and Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, in addition to essays on nineteenth-century women writers, including Jane Austen. She is at work on a book titled Keywords of Jane Austen's Fiction.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I Jane Austen's Works Northanger Abbey and the Functions of MetafictionJodi L. Wyett Sense and Sensibility, Novel and PhenomenonPeter Graham Pride and Prejudice: Not altogether 'light & bright & sparkling'Susan J. Wolfson The Novelty of Mansfield Park Emily Rohrbach Emma, a HeroineGeorge Justice The Politics of Friendship in Persuasion Michael D. Lewis The Historical and Cultural Aspects of Jane Austen's LettersJodi A. Devine 'Setting at naught all rules of probable or possible': Jane Austen's 'Juvenilia'John C. Leffel Part II Historicizing Austen: A Sampling Touching upon Jane Austen's PoliticsDevoney Looser 'A Picture of Real Life and Manners'? Austen, Burney, and EdgeworthLinda Bree Jane Austen and the Georgian NovelElaine Bander From Samplers to Shakespeare: Jane Austen's ReadingKatie Halsey Pedestrian Characters and Plots: Persuasion and The Heart of Midlothian Tara Goshal Wallace From Jewelled Toothpick-Cases to Blue Nankin Boots: Austen, Consumerist Culture, and NarrativeLaura M. White 'Bringing her Business Forward': Jane Austen and Political EconomySarah Comyn Material Goods in Austen's NovelsSandie Byrne Jane Austen and MusicLaura Voracheck 'All the Egotism of an Invalid': Hypochondria as Form in Jane Austen's Sanditon Sarah Marsh Jane Austen and the Whitewashed PastOlivia Murphy They Came Before and After Olivia: Cats, Black Ladies and Political Blackness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and AustenLyndon J. Dominique Part III Critical Approaches to Austen: A Sampling Hearing Voices in Austen: The Representation of Speech and Voice in the NovelsAdela Pinch Being Plotted, Being Thrown: Austen's Catch and ReleaseWilliam Galperin Austen's Literary TimeAmit Yahav Austen, Masculinity, and RomanticismSarah Ailwood Jane Austen Likes Women: Self-Worth, Self-Care, and Heroic Self-SacrificeKathleen Anderson 'Queer Austen' and Northanger Abbey Susan Celia Greenfield 'A Perfectly Swell Romance': Jane Austen and Fred Astaire: A Case Study in Analogy CriticismPaula Marantz Cohen Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu's La Famille Elliot (1821)Rachel Canter Jane Austen and the Social SciencesWendy Jones Part IV Austen's Communities: A Sampling Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal and Persuasions On-Line: 'Formed for [an] Elegant and Rational Society'Susan Allen Ford 'It is Such a Happiness When Good People Get Together': JAS and JASNAAlice Marie Villaseñor Live Austen Adaptation in the Age of Multimedia ReproductionChristopher C. Nagle 'You do not know her or her heart': Minor Character Elaboration in Contemporary Austen Spin-off FictionKylie Mirmohamadi Jane Goes Gaga: Austen as Celebrity and BrandMarina Cano Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong PakistanisLaaleen Sukhera Race, Class, Gender Remixed: Reimagining Pride and Prejudice in Communities of ColourSigrid Michelle Anderson Writing Community: Some Thoughts about Jane Austen FanfictionMelanie Borrego Part V Teaching Jane Austen: A Sampling Teaching Jane Austen in the Twenty-First CenturyMichael Gamer and Katrina O'Loughlin Close Reading and Close Looking: Teaching Austen Novels and FilmsMartha Stoddard Holmes Myth, Reality, and Global Celebrity: Teaching Jane Austen OnlineGillian Dow and Kim Simpson Epistemic Injustice in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park; Or, What Austen Teaches Us about Mansplaining and White PrivilegeTim Black and Danielle Spratt Race, Privilege, and Relatability: A Practical Guide for College and Secondary InstructorsJuliette Wells Austen's Belief in Education: Sseki, Nogami, and SensibilityKimiyo Ogawa Teaching Jane Austen through Public Humanities: The Jane Austen Summer Program Inger S. B. Brodey, Anne Fertig, and Sarah Schaefer Walton

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