The Edinburgh companion to Jane Austen and the arts / edited by Joe Bray and Hannah Moss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bray, Joe, editor.

Moss, Hannah, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Criticism and interpretation.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Adaptations.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Knowledge and learning.

Arts in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 544 pages, 48 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Companion to Jane Austen and the arts

Jane Austen and the arts

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. This book considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The 33 original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. The book also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: The Arts in Context

1. Jane Austen, Early Modern Aesthetics and Contemplative Sublimity

2. Taste and Passion, Disinterest and the Imagination

3. Jane Austen, Moral Philosophy and the Tradition

4. 'Possessing a most exquisite taste in every species of literature': Reading, Moral Taste and Creative Action in Jane Austen's Novels

5. Reforming the Artist Heroine: Reading Sense and Sensibility (1811) as a Response to Jane West's A Gossip's Story (1796)

6. Picturing (In)Sensibility in Austen's Novels and Print Culture

7. The Flemish Jane Austen

Part II: The Arts in Austen

8. 'The Creative Eye of Fancy': Women, Visual Culture and the Female Gaze in Austen's Novels

9. Shadow Portraits: Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Silhouettes

10. Jane Austen and Crafts

11. Jane Austen's Conversation Pieces

12. Jane Austen, Caricature and the Fat Self

13. Jane Austen and the Figure of the Body

14. 'He has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people': Austen's Men and the Arts

15. Music in Jane Austen's Novels

16. Jane Austen's Dance Dialogues: Representing Dance in the Novels

17. The Paper Age: Jane Austen, Fashion and Finance

18. Jane Austen and the Theatre of Her Time

19. Jane Austen, Architecture and the Decorative Arts

20. Creators of Spaces: The Art of Owning, Inhabiting and Imagining Property in Jane Austen

21. 'Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end': Austen's Gardens

Part III: Afterlives

22. Jane Austen and the Letter

23. Austen in a Competitive Literary Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Editions

24. Jane Austen and the Imperfect Art of Translation

25. Dealing with Jane Austen's Unfinished Novels: Completions of The Watsons and Sanditon

26. The Perils of Novelistic Adaptation: Death Comes to Pemberley, Longbourn and Pamela

27. When the Pen is in Fans' Hands - The Jane Austen Fan Fiction Phenomenon

28. Locating Austen in Contemporary Theatre

29. 'I am having a bit of a strange postmodern moment here': Adapting Austen for Television

30. Theme Parks and Seaside Resorts: Rethinking Material and Visual Culture in Sanditon (2019) and Austenland (2013)

31. 'Three or four families in a RPG': Gaming and Jane Austen

32. Austen Reloaded: Digital Approaches to Jane Austen and the Arts

33. The Jane Austen Heritage Industry and Literary Tourism

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-0042-2