Recreating Jane Austen

by John Wiltshire

Overview

Recreating Jane Austen is a book for readers who know and love Austen's work. Stimulated by the recent crop of film and television versions of Austen's novels, John Wiltshire examines how her work has been "recreated" in another age and medium. Written in an engaging and readable style, this accessible study approaches the central question of the role Jane Austen plays in the contemporary cultural imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521802468
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/02/2001
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.67(d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; A note on texts; Introduction: 'Jane Austen' and Jane Austen; 1. Imagining Jane Austen's life; 2. Recreating Jane Austen: Jane Austen in Manhattan, Metropolitan, Clueless; 3. An Englishwoman's constitution: Jane Austen and Shakespeare; 4. From drama, to novel, to film: inwardness in Mansfield Park and Persuasion; 5. Pride and Prejudice, love and recognition; 6. The genius and the facilitating environment; Notes; A note on films cited; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Those looking for an intelligent and very well-informed guide to Austen's contemporary cultural significance will find in Recreating Jane Austen the starting place they seek." Eighteenth-Century Fiction

"John Wiltshire offers a smart critical engagement with Austen adaptation in his Recreating Jane Austen, where he not only analyzes the texts and films but offers a theory of artistic influence and creativity." The Wordsworth Circle

"Although short, the book is remarkably well informed - with extraordinary useful notes and bibliography - and cleverly and wittily argued." CHOICE

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