Literary heritage writ large at the Jane Austen Festival, Bath / Katherine Johnson. Part III. Playing with Austen -- 'Unwholesome tissues of false sentiment': Jane Austen, the Silver Fork Novel, and fashions of reading / Clare Bainbridge -- 'Within view of his own warehouses': sites of change in Pride and Prejudice and North and South / Sarah Dredge -- Georgette Heyer: what Austen left out / Lisa Hopkins -- Manners, money, and marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the literary genealogy of hte regency romance / Stacy Gillis -- Part II. Austen adapted -- 'Welcome to the 21st century!: Modernising Jane Austen in the HarperCollins Project / Nora Foster Stovel -- The trouble with Mary: Curtis Sittenfeld's Eligible an dthe single woman / Camilla Nelson -- Adapting Austen 'for the new generation': ITV's 2007 trilogy Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion / Gill Ballinger -- 'Only four months a widow': the story-telling wardrobe of Lady Susan in Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship (2016) / Leigh Wetherall Dickson -- Part III. Playing with Austen -- 'Dear Aunt Jane': Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Jane Austen / Juliette Wells -- Jane Austen, free indirect style, gender and interiority in literary fiction / Barbara MacMahon -- Austenland and narrative tensions in Austen's biopics / Janice Wardle -- Literary heritage writ large at the Jane Austen Festival, Bath / Katherine Johnson.
Summary:
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.
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