Uses of Austen: Jane's Afterlives [Hardcover]

This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Dow & C.Hanson 'A genius for foretelling': Augustan Austen and Future Fiction; D.Lynch 'England's Jane': The Legacy of Jane Austen in the Fiction of Barbara Pym, Dodie Smith and Elizabeth Taylor; M.Joannou 'The Future of Pemberley': Emma Tennant, the 'Classic Progression' and Literary Trespassing; R.Munfort New Theoretical Approaches to Austen in Contemporary Popular Culture; J.Wells Becoming Jane: The Life of Jane Austen in Contemporary Biography and Film; J.North Letters to Jane: Austen, the Letter, and Twentieth-century Women's Writing; W.May At Home with Jane: Placing Austen in Contemporary Culture; F.James Uses of Translation: The Global Jane Austen; G.Dow The Imperial Economy of Chadha's Bride and Prejudice ; S.Jones 'Bin Laden a Huge Jane Austen Fan': Jane Austen in Contemporary Political Discourse; M.A.O'Farrell 'What Would Jane Do?' Postfeminist Media Uses of Austen and the Woman Reader; S.Cobb Bibliography Index

This collection makes a lively contribution to one of the hot topics in contemporary Austen Studies our persistent and multi-faceted refiguring of Jane Austen's reputation, her writings, and her afterlives. These stimulating essays chart the likely and unlikely uses of Jane Austen: her Modernist construction in the early twentieth century, her importance in times of war, her feminist and post-feminist fashioning, her academic and popular appeal, and her recent emergence on the global stage. They celebrate Austen's many transformations: in biography, film, blog, sequels, and literary tourism. Kathryn Sutherland, Professorial Fellow in EngllĂL