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Jane Austen and Performance
Marina Cano
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Description for Jane Austen and Performance
Hardback. Exploring the performative force of Austen s work and its afterlife, including how these aided the formation of collective and personal identity and helped bring people together across generations, this book unearths little-known Austen materials, and concludes with a look at Austen fandom based on an online survey of over 300 responses. Num Pages: 212 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 14 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and America. The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which elicited over 300 responses from fans across the globe. Through the lens of performative theory, this volume explores how Austen, her work and its afterlives, have aided the formation of collective and ... Read more
This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and amateur theatricals, passing through mid-twentieth-century representations in Scotland and America. The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which elicited over 300 responses from fans across the globe. Through the lens of performative theory, this volume explores how Austen, her work and its afterlives, have aided the formation of collective and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319439877
SKU
V9783319439877
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Marina Cano
Marina Cano is a teaching fellow in Women's Writing in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include women's writing, the long nineteenth-century, performance and gender theory. She is also a researcher in Travelling Texts 1790-1914: Transnational Reception of Women's Writing at the Fringes of Europe.
Reviews for Jane Austen and Performance
The book looks at different periods and movements in the 20th century that have taken quotations and themes from her novels and aspects of her life to identify with their ideals, needs and aspirations. ... The book is clearly written and well organised. ... there is much to interest the general reader. (Pamela Whalan, Sensibilities, Vol. 55, December, 2017) ... Read more