- Publisher: Johns Hopkins UP
- Year: 2017
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 302pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 234x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.5kg
- ISBN: 9781421422824
- Product code: 541497
The Making of Jane Austen
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Although Jane Austen has become a beloved cultural icon, it was not until the year after her death that she was even revealed as the author of her anonymously published novels. This study of Austen’s early fans and critics presents new research into little-known individuals who helped to shape her reputation, including her first English illustrator and the director-actress who adapted her novels for the stage in the 1890s.
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Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs.
Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
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Although Jane Austen has become a beloved cultural icon, it was not until the year after her death that she was even revealed as the author of her anonymously published novels. This study of Austen’s early fans and critics presents new research into little-known individuals who helped to shape her reputation, including her first English illustrator and the director-actress who adapted her novels for the stage in the 1890s.
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