Juliette Wells

A New Jane Austen

How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist

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Produktbeschreibung

Completing Juliette Wells' groundbreaking trio of books on Austen's readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world's greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen's global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia. Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colorful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen's novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781350365513
• ISBN-10: 1350365513
• Artikelnr.: 67830237

Autorenporträt

Juliette Wells

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Austen for Americans
and for the world: Oscar Fay Adams
critical editor and biographer Chapter 2: Canonizing "the giant Jane": William Dean Howells
interpreter and advocate Chapter 3: Topaz crosses plus treasures of another kind: Charles Beecher Hogan
collector and keeper of reading journals Chapter 4: A labor of love and friendship: Alberta H. Burke
Averil G. Hassall
and the building of a transatlantic Austen archive Afterword: Jane Austen Anew Bibliography