A Companion to Jane Austen

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

Claudia L. Johnson joined the faculty at Princeton in 1994 and now serves as Department Chair. She specializes in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, with a particular emphasis on the novel. Her books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (Chicago, 1988), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (Chicago, 1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (Cambridge, 2002), along with editions of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (Norton, 1998), Sense and Sensibility (Norton, 2002), and Northanger Abbey (Oxford, 2003). Her research has been supported by major fellowships such as the NEH and the Guggenheim. She is now finishing a book about author-love called Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, which traces permutations of “Jane mania” from 1817 to the present, and also working on another called Raising the Novel, which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture.

Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge, 2002, 2008), as well as several essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (Cambridge, 2002, 2006).

Cover image: The Modern Living Room, from Humphry Repton's 'Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', 1816, colour lithograph. Private Collection, The Stapleton Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library.

List of Illustrations
A Note to the Reader
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Life and the Texts
Jane AustenÆs Life and Letters
The Austen Family Writing: Gossip, Parody, and Corporate Personality
The Literary Marketplace
Texts and Editions
Jane Austen, Illustrated
Reading the Texts
Young Jane Austen: Author
Moving In and Out: The Property of Self in Sense and Sensibility
Austen the Illusionist: Northanger Abbey and AustenÆs Uses of Enchantment
Re-Reading Pride and Prejudice: ôWhat think you of books?ö
The Missed Opportunities of Mansfield Park
Emma: Wordgames and Secret Histories
Persuasion: The Gradual Dawning of Greatness
Sanditon and the Book
Literary Genres and Genealogies
Turns of Speech and Figures of Mind
Narrative Technique: Austen and her Contemporaries
Time and her Aunt
AustenÆs Realist Play
Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing
Sentiment and Sensibility: Austen, Feeling and Print Culture
The Gothic Austen
Political, Social and Cultural Worlds
From Politics to Silence: Jane AustenÆs Non-Referential Aesthetic
The army, the navy and the Napoleonic Wars
Jane Austen, the 1790s and the French Revolution
Feminisms
Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park
Jane Austen and the Nation
Religion
Family Matters
Austen and Masculinity
The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodification of Sociability
Luxury: Making Sense of Excess in AustenÆs Narratives
AustenÆs Accomplishment: Music and the Modern Heroine
Austen and Performance: Theatre, Memory and Enculturation
Reception and Reinvention
Jane Austen and Genius
Jane AustenÆs Periods
Nostalgia
AustenÆs European Reception
Jane Austen and the Silver Fork Novel
Jane Austen in the World: New Women, Imperial Vistas
Sexuality
Jane Austen and popular culture
Austenean Subcultures
Primary Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
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