- Demonstrates the extent and variety of Austen's cultural influenceExamines a range of texts that Austen has influenced, from 19th century novelists to 20th century televisionSheds new light on Austen herself, in addition to her work
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- About this book
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This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.
- About the authors
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Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She works mainly on Shakespeare, Marlowe and Ford but has also written Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2016), Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen (Palgrave, 2009) and Bram Stoker: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2007).
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Looking at Austen
Pages 1-15
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‘Unwholesome Tissues of False Sentiment’: Jane Austen, the Silver Fork Novel, and Fashions of Reading
Pages 19-41
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‘Within View of His Own Warehouses’: Sites of Change in Pride and Prejudice and North and South
Pages 43-60
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Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out
Pages 61-79
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Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance
Pages 81-101
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- After Austen
- Book Subtitle
- Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings
- Editors
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- Lisa Hopkins
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-95894-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-95893-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 296
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
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