The Making of Jane Austen

Download or Read eBook The Making of Jane Austen PDF written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Making of Jane Austen
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781421422824
ISBN-13 : 1421422824
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Book Synopsis The Making of Jane Austen by : Devoney Looser

Book excerpt: "Returning author Devoney Looser has written a study of Jane Austen's legacy in high and popular culture, looking at stage and film adaptations of her work, how Austen has been taught in classrooms, Austen's depiction in visual culture, and Austen's role in the women's suffragist movement. Looser draws on popular print and unpublished archival sources, amassing evidence from high, middlebrow, and popular culture, in order to craft a more capacious history of posthumous reception. The book is a detailed and revealing account of what Looser calls the "public dimension" of Jane Austen, who is a "manufactured creation." Looser has dug deep and come up with brand-new material on Austen, something that is very hard to do. This is the kind of material that Janeites and Austen scholars live for"--


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