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Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Claire Harman
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Description for Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Paperback. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Num Pages: 368 pages, x2 mono image sections. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. How Jane Austen Conquered the World. 384 pages, 2 x 8pp colour. Essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 24. Weight: 274.
Part biography and part cultural history, this splendid book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life, but also her literary legacy. The slow growth of Austen's fame, the changing status of her work, and what it has stood for in English culture is a story of personal struggle and family dynamics as well as a history of critical practices and changing public tastes.
Jane's Fame is essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works and unshakable appeal.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847675330
SKU
V9781847675330
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Claire Harman
Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson. She writes frequently for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reviews for Jane´s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
A deft, elegant exploration of the cult of all thing Austen . . . a happy blend of critical insight and narrative bounce, making Jane's Fame a fine addition to the current trend for analysing posthumous lives.
Guardian
Harman is particularly good on how writing became the centre of [Jane's] life . . . this fascinating and sophisticated take on Jane Mania is a sparkling addition to the canon.
Christopher Hudson
Evening Standard
An extraordinary book, crammed with scholarship and glittering with trivia . . . Harman's book offers so many delight . . . This is a fantastic compendium of absolutely everything relating to Austen, the tone calm and impartial despite severe provocation.
Independent on Sunday
A wonderful book . . . A shrewd but unstuffy critic, Harman's prose rings with good sense, affection and humour, and she articulates very well indeed what's good about Austen without descending into the camp either of drooling Janeites or literary-theoretical pseudery . . . [Jane's Fame] manages to be not only scholarly, but indecently entertaining.
Daily Mail
An exhilarating look at the rise of Divine Jane's worldwide influence. Harman charts its course with wit and style, as well as scholarly precision, making this a book that no Austen addict will want to resist.
Mark Bostridge
Literary Review
Splendid . . . there is no doubt that Harman is the first to treat this fascinating subject in an accessible, lively manner unshackled by academic jargon. There is much to enjoy in this book . . . it's the quality of the insights and the interpretations that make this book such a good read.
Paula Byrne
Sunday Telegraph
A witty examination of [Austen's] rise to world domination . . . Harman unpicks the cultural and sexual fantasies at the heart of Jane fandom with great skill . . . Jane's Fame is threaded through with 150 years of opinions [of Austen], but there is not a dull sentence among them.
Frances Wilson
Daily Telgraph
A wonderfully informative read.
Sarah O'Meara
Edinburgh Evening News
An intelligent addition to the Austen industry...Harman has taken a subject that in a previous generation would have been restricted to academia, and given it the treatment necessary to catch the attention of modern Austen fans...Jane's Fame is a valuable and illuminating addition to the ranks of Austen mania.
Rosemary Goring
Sunday Herald
A brilliant addition to the Austen canon.
Janina Pogorzelski
The Lady Magazine
Guardian
Harman is particularly good on how writing became the centre of [Jane's] life . . . this fascinating and sophisticated take on Jane Mania is a sparkling addition to the canon.
Christopher Hudson
Evening Standard
An extraordinary book, crammed with scholarship and glittering with trivia . . . Harman's book offers so many delight . . . This is a fantastic compendium of absolutely everything relating to Austen, the tone calm and impartial despite severe provocation.
Independent on Sunday
A wonderful book . . . A shrewd but unstuffy critic, Harman's prose rings with good sense, affection and humour, and she articulates very well indeed what's good about Austen without descending into the camp either of drooling Janeites or literary-theoretical pseudery . . . [Jane's Fame] manages to be not only scholarly, but indecently entertaining.
Daily Mail
An exhilarating look at the rise of Divine Jane's worldwide influence. Harman charts its course with wit and style, as well as scholarly precision, making this a book that no Austen addict will want to resist.
Mark Bostridge
Literary Review
Splendid . . . there is no doubt that Harman is the first to treat this fascinating subject in an accessible, lively manner unshackled by academic jargon. There is much to enjoy in this book . . . it's the quality of the insights and the interpretations that make this book such a good read.
Paula Byrne
Sunday Telegraph
A witty examination of [Austen's] rise to world domination . . . Harman unpicks the cultural and sexual fantasies at the heart of Jane fandom with great skill . . . Jane's Fame is threaded through with 150 years of opinions [of Austen], but there is not a dull sentence among them.
Frances Wilson
Daily Telgraph
A wonderfully informative read.
Sarah O'Meara
Edinburgh Evening News
An intelligent addition to the Austen industry...Harman has taken a subject that in a previous generation would have been restricted to academia, and given it the treatment necessary to catch the attention of modern Austen fans...Jane's Fame is a valuable and illuminating addition to the ranks of Austen mania.
Rosemary Goring
Sunday Herald
A brilliant addition to the Austen canon.
Janina Pogorzelski
The Lady Magazine