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The lost books of Jane Austen / Janine Barchas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR4037 .B35 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barchas, Janine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Appreciation.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Bibliography.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History.
- Authors and publishers.
- Literature publishing--Great Britain--History.
- Literature publishing.
- Authors and readers--Great Britain--History.
- Authors and readers.
- Authors and publishers--United States--History.
- Literature publishing--United States--History.
- Authors and readers--United States--History.
- Art appreciation.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Austen on the cheap
- Vignette I. Marianne & Gertrude
- Paperback fighter: Austen for the people
- Vignette II. Emma at the Seaside
- Sense, sensibility, and soap: Lever promotions in the 1890s
- Vignette III. The old sea captain & William Price
- Looking divine: wrapping Austen in the religious
- Vignette IV. Charlotte & a real castle
- Selling with paintings: a curious history of the cheap prestige reprint
- Vignette V. Young Heman's summer in Paris
- Pinking Jane Austen: the turn to "chick lit"
- Vignette VI. Lady Isabella's Mansfield Park
- Women's work: from school edition to scholarly Austen
- Vignette VII. Annie's prized gift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421431598
- 1421431599
- OCLC:
- 1079411422
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