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Everybody's Jane : Austen in the popular imagination / Juliette Wells.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Juliette, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Appreciation.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Influence.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Adaptations.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--In mass media.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Austen in the popular imagination
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
- Summary:
- The legacy of Jane Austen (1775-1817) lives on in adaptations of her fiction, book groups, Austen studies, and pilgrimages to Austen's Home Museum in Chawton, England. Drawing on her questioning of tourists to the museum about what Austen means to them, Wells (English, Manhattanville College) examines why her novels still attract general readers. She also discusses the passion of a late American amateur collector of all things Austen, and unusual reinventions of her works which infuse them with the missing sex and violence. Illustrations include Austen art, memorabilia, photographs of locales in her life, and film stills. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction: approaching Austen in the popular imagination
- Alberta H. Burke, Austen omnivore
- Reading like an amateur
- Getting closer to Austen : literary tourism
- Envisioning Austen: portraits, fiction, film
- American Austen hybrids : sex, horror/paranormal, faith
- Coming together through Austen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441176547
- 1441176543
- 9781441145543
- 1441145540
- OCLC:
- 657603074
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