A Companion to Jane Austen: 150 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470672382 ISBN 13: 9780470672389

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelist's works and career. * Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarship * Functions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studies * Engages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

About this title

Review:

"The advantage is that the chapters tend to be manageable, clear, and focused - perfect, in fact, for assigning to undergraduate and beginning graduate students." (Notes and Queries, March 2010)

"This book would be a worthy addition to any university, school and even private library in a place where Austen is read and re-read." (Transnational Literature, May 2009)

"Austenites should be delighted with this comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies. [...] This should become a standard Austen reference. Highly recommended." (Choice, August 2009)

About the Author:

Claudia L. Johnson is Chair of the Department of English at Princeton University. Her previous books include Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel (1988), Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002), along with editions of Jane Austen s Mansfield Park (1998), Sense and Sensibility (2002), and Northanger Abbey (2003). Her forthcoming works include Jane Austen s Cults and Cultures, tracing permutations of Jane mania from 1817 to the present, and Raising the Novel, which explores modern efforts to create a novelistic canon by elevating novels to keystones of high culture. Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (2002, 2008), as well as several essays on Austen, and the co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (2002, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470672382
• ISBN 13: 9780470672389
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Johnson Claudia L.