Overview
- Demonstrates the extent and variety of Austen's cultural influence
- Examines a range of texts that Austen has influenced, from 19th century novelists to 20th century television
- Sheds new light on Austen herself, in addition to her work
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This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two hundred years since her death. Some of the chapters explore adaptations or repurposings of her work while others trace her influence on a surprising variety of different kinds of writing, sometimes even when there is no announced or obvious debt to her. In so doing they also inevitably shed light on Austen herself. Austen is often considered romantic and not often considered political, but both those perceptions are challenged her, as is the idea that she is primarily a writer for and about women. Her books are comic and ironic, but they have been reworked and drawn upon in very different genres and styles. Collectively these essays testify to the extraordinary versatility and resonance of Austen’s books.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Austen in Her Time
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Austen Adapted
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She works mainly on Shakespeare, Marlowe and Ford but has also written Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2016), Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen (Palgrave, 2009) and Bram Stoker: A Literary Life (Palgrave, 2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: After Austen
Book Subtitle: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings
Editors: Lisa Hopkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95893-4Published: 19 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40505-2Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95894-1Published: 11 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Adaptation Studies