Reading Austen in America / Juliette Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Juliette, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Influence.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Appreciation.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Books and reading.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Authors and readers--United States.

Authors and readers.

Reader-response criticism--United States.

Reader-response criticism.

Art appreciation.

Books and reading.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

"Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells -- author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination -- goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."-- Provided by publisher.

"A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part one. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its readers

The origins of the first Austen novel printed in America

Tales of three copies: books, owners, and readers

An accomplished Scotswoman reads Austen abroad: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America

Part two. Transatlantic Austen conversations

Enthusiasts connected through the "electric telegraph of genius": the Quincy sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen family of Portsmouth

Collectors and bibliographers: Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350012059

135001205X

9781350012042

1350012041

OCLC:

961001935

Publisher Number:

40027526097