Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives

Gillian Dow

Springer, Aug 21, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 243 pages

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Augustan Austen and Future Fiction: 19
• The Legacy of Jane Austen in the Fiction of Barbara Pym Dodie Smith and Elizabeth Taylor: 37
• Emma Tennant the Classic Progression and Literary Trespassing: 59
• 4 New Approaches to Austen and the Popular Reader: 77
• 5 Jane Austens Life on Page and Screen: 92
• Austen the Letter and TwentiethCentury Womens Writing: 115
• Placing Austen in Contemporary Culture: 132
• The Global Jane Austen: 154
• Women as Readers and Dancers in Gurinder Chadhas Bride and Prejudice 2004: 175
• Jane Austen in Contemporary Political Discourse: 192
• 11 What Would Jane Do? Postfeminist Media Uses of Austen and the Austen Reader: 208
• Select Bibliography: 228
• Index: 239

About the author

SHELLEY COBB Lecturer in English and Film, University of Southampton, UK FELICITY JAMES Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Literature, University of Leicester, UK MARY JOANNOU Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing, Anglia Ruskin University, UK STEPHANIE JONES Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK DEIDRE SHAUNA LYNCH Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada WILLIAM MAY Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK REBECCA MUNFORD Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK JULIAN NORTH Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK MARY ANN O'FARRELL Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University, UK JULIETTE WELLS Associate Professor and Chair of English, Manhattanville College, USA

Bibliographic information

• Title: Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives
• Author: Gillian Dow
• Editor: C. Hanson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2012
• ISBN: 1137271744, 9781137271747
• Length: 243 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies