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Janeites: Austen´s Disciples and Devotees
Lynch
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Description for Janeites: Austen´s Disciples and Devotees
Paperback. A collection of essays, which explore the myriad appropriations of Jane Austen - adaptations, reviews, rewritings, and appreciations - that have been produced since her lifetime. Editor(s): Lynch, Deidre. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literary tradition, even legitimizing the academic study of novels. However, the Janeite phenomenon has not until now aroused the curiosity of scholars interested in the politics of culture. Rather than lament the fact that Austen today ... Read more
Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literary tradition, even legitimizing the academic study of novels. However, the Janeite phenomenon has not until now aroused the curiosity of scholars interested in the politics of culture. Rather than lament the fact that Austen today ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691050065
SKU
V9780691050065
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About Lynch
Deidre Lynch is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning and the coeditor, with William B. Warner, of Cultural Institutions of the Novel.
Reviews for Janeites: Austen´s Disciples and Devotees
"Written with much scholarly dedication and good humor ... Accessible, well documented, carefully written generally argot-free, and convincing."
Choice "Although Janeites is written by professionals and thus, perhaps, is not for every amateur enthusiast, anyone who can read Jane Austen's sophisticated prose will be able to read these essays."
James R. Aubrey, Bloomsbury Review "Janeites is a groundbreaking book."
Devoney Looser, Eighteenth-Century Studies ... Read more
Choice "Although Janeites is written by professionals and thus, perhaps, is not for every amateur enthusiast, anyone who can read Jane Austen's sophisticated prose will be able to read these essays."
James R. Aubrey, Bloomsbury Review "Janeites is a groundbreaking book."
Devoney Looser, Eighteenth-Century Studies ... Read more