Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, SanditonAuthor: Austen, Jane/ Kinsley, James (EDT)/ Davie, John N. (EDT)/ Johnson, Claudia L. (INT)Publisher: Oxford Univ PrPublication Date: 2008/05/15Number of Pages: 379Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: oc2008011920

Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Claudia L.

Austen., Jane

Literary

Oxford University Press

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombies and sea monsters. Austen’s lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. In Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, Claudia L. Johnson shows how Jane Austen became “Jane Austen,” a figure intensely—sometimes even wildly—venerated, and often for markedly different reasons. Johnson begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. She then passes through the four critical phases of Austen’s reception—the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949—and ponders what the adoration of Austen has meant to readers over the past two centuries. For her fans, the very concept of “Jane Austen” encapsulates powerful ideas and feelings about history, class, manners, intimacy, language, and the everyday. By respecting the intelligence of past commentary about Austen, Johnson shows, we are able to revisit her work and unearth fresh insights and new critical possibilities. An insightful look at how and why readers have cherished one of our most beloved authors, Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures will be a valuable addition to the library of any fan of the divine Jane.

British & Irish

University of Chicago Press

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

History & Criticism

"The best (and the best written) book about Austen that has appeared in the last three decades."—Nina Auerbach, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "By looking at the ways in which Austen domesticates the gothic in Northanger Abbey, examines the conventions of male inheritance and its negative impact on attempts to define the family as a site of care and generosity in Sense and Sensibility, makes claims for the desirability of 'personal happiness as a liberating moral category' in Pride and Prejudice, validates the rights of female authority in Emma, and stresses the benefits of female independence in Persuasion, Johnson offers an original and persuasive reassessment of Jane Austen's thought."—Kate Fullbrook, Times Higher Education Supplement

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions.Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society)

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."

Jane Austen completed only six novels, but enduring passion for the author and her works has driven fans to read these books repeatedly, in book clubs or solo, while also inspiring countless film adaptations, sequels, and even spoofs involving zombies and sea monsters. Austen’s lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. In Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures, Claudia L. Johnson shows how Jane Austen became “Jane Austen,” a figure intensely—sometimes even wildly—venerated, and often for markedly different reasons.Johnson begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. She then passes through the four critical phases of Austen’s reception—the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949—and ponders what the adoration of Austen has meant to readers over the past two centuries. For her fans, the very concept of “Jane Austen” encapsulates powerful ideas and feelings about history, class, manners, intimacy, language, and the everyday. By respecting the intelligence of past commentary about Austen, Johnson shows, we are able to revisit her work and unearth fresh insights and new critical possibilities. An insightful look at how and why readers have cherished one of our most beloved authors, Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures will be a valuable addition to the library of any fan of the divine Jane.

A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen.&nbsp; Was&nbsp;Jane Austen&nbsp;the best-selling novelist of her time?&nbsp;Are all&nbsp;her&nbsp;novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy?&nbsp;Is&nbsp;Austen's writing easy to understand?&nbsp;Well into the 21st&nbsp;century, Jane Austen continues to be one of the most compelling novelists in all English literature.&nbsp;Many of her ideas&nbsp;about&nbsp;class, family, history, intimacy, manners,&nbsp;love, desire, and&nbsp;society,&nbsp;have&nbsp;inspired&nbsp;"myths" that are often contradictory&nbsp;--&nbsp;she was a Tory who was also a liberal feminist, or,&nbsp;her novels&nbsp;are at once&nbsp;sharply satirical and unapologetically romantic.&nbsp;Myths, like Austen's works,&nbsp;are dynamic, changing over time and impacting how we read and interpret literature.&nbsp;&nbsp; 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen&nbsp;examines the accepted beliefs -- both true and untrue --that have most influenced our readings of Austen.&nbsp;Rather than simply de-bunking, or validating,&nbsp;commonly-held&nbsp;views about Austen, authors&nbsp;Claudia&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Johnson&nbsp;and&nbsp;Clara Tuite&nbsp;explore how&nbsp;these myths&nbsp;can be used to engage&nbsp;with the life, work, and reception of Jane Austen.&nbsp;Applying&nbsp;the most up-to-date&nbsp;scholarship to&nbsp;better&nbsp;understand how&nbsp;myths shape our appreciation of Jane Austen, this fascinating volume:&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in;"> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Introduces&nbsp;readers to the history of Austen reception, both in academic scholarship and in the general public&nbsp;</li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;">Examines&nbsp;Jane Austen's life and letters, her historical contexts, her texts, and their afterlives&nbsp;</li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;">Discusses Austen's influence&nbsp;on&nbsp;the development of literary criticism as a discipline&nbsp;</li> <li style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;">Explores&nbsp;each of&nbsp;Austen's&nbsp;main novels, as well as&nbsp;relatively&nbsp;obscure&nbsp;texts&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Sanditon&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Watsons&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> Offering engaging narrative and original insights,&nbsp;30 Great Myths about Jane Austen&nbsp;is a&nbsp;must-read&nbsp;for scholars, instructors, and students of English and Romantic literature, as well as general readers with interest in the life and works of Jane Austen.&nbsp;

30 Great Myths about Jane Austen

Tuite, Clara

Wiley/Blackwell

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 2: Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (1798)

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

Miles, Robert

Cox, Philip

Gilroy, Amanda

Verhoeven, W.M.

Routledge

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 3: Mrs Bullock, Dorothea; or, A Ray of the New Light (1801)

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 3

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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society)

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society)

Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures

30 Great Myths about Jane Austen

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 2: Charles Lloyd, Edmund Oliver (1798)

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part I, Volume 3