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17%OFFDevoney Looser - The Making of Jane Austen - 9781421422824 - V9781421422824
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The Making of Jane Austen

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Description for The Making of Jane Austen Hardback. Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 23, 23 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DS; DSA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .
Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making of Jane Austen turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422824
SKU
V9781421422824
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Ref
99-50

About Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser is a Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820.

Reviews for The Making of Jane Austen
Energetic and revealing.
Jane Smiley
New York Times Book Review
One of the most fascinating sections... consequently takes in the wildly different approaches of [Austen's] early illustrators.
Wall Street Journal
Looser is a sober and conscientiously corrective guide, constantly prompting us to historicise the conventional ways in which we conceive of Austen... This is a ... Read more

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