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New Jane Austen de Juliette Wells

New Jane Austen

Autor Juliette Wells
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2023
Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy.

Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350365513
ISBN-10: 1350365513
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 35 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction

Chapter 1: Austen for Americans, and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams, critical editor and biographer

Chapter 2: Canonizing "the giant Jane": William Dean Howells, interpreter and advocate

Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan, collector and keeper of reading journals

Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke, Averil G. Hassall, and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive

Afterword: Jane Austen Anew

Bibliography

Recenzii

Wells has done something quite unique in her newest contribution to Austen scholarship: written an incredibly engaging and unpretentious academic text. Despite an abundance of endnotes that speak to Wells' depth of research, the tone is casual and welcoming.
Wells's recovery and championship of these American enthusiasts is descriptive, laudatory and accessible in style ... She gives space and a second hearing to voices and approaches whose love for all things Austen, she believes, has much to teach us.
Juliette Wells' new book...amply offers this hoped-for sense of delightful discovery.
If you thought you knew how Jane Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist, think again. Wells's meticulously researched and beautifully written book introduces a fascinating group of individuals whose contributions to Austen studies have long been obscure. After reading this book, I came to care as much about Alberta Burke and Oscar Fay Adams as I do about many of Austen's characters.
An insightful, illuminating and meticulously researched book. Wells animates her subjects with skill, energy and affection in a study that significantly deepens our understanding of early Austen experts and enthusiasts and their contribution to the field.
Wells's monograph will appeal to scholars interested in the lesser-studied facets of Austen's reception, particularly the contributions of private scholars and collectors in the United States. However, the book will also be of great interest to a wider readership of Austen enthusiasts, as the inviting pink cover with romantic handwritten calligraphy and the appealing subtitle demonstrate.