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Janeites : Austen's disciples and devotees

Title
Janeites : Austen's disciples and devotees / edited by Deidre Lynch.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
Lynch, Deidre
Description
233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This study explores the phenomenon of the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan of Jane Austen whose devotion to her novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. The text asks what Janeites do and explores the myriad appropriations of Austen.
Subject
  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 > Criticism and interpretation > History
  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 > Appreciation
  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 > Influence
  • Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
  • Austen, Jane 1775-1817
  • Austen, Jane
  • 1800-1899
  • Women and literature > England > History > 19th century
  • Romance fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Authors, English > 19th century > Criticism and interpretation
  • Reading interests
  • English fiction > Appreciation
  • Authors, English
  • English fiction > Appreciation
  • Art appreciation
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Romance fiction, English
  • Reading interests
  • Women and literature
  • Geschichte
  • Rezeption
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Invloed
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : sharing with our neighbors / Deidre Lynch -- The divine Miss Jane : Jane Austen, Janeites, and the discipline of novel studies / Claudia L. Johnson -- Jane Austen's friendship / Mary Ann O'Farrell -- Sensibility by the numbers : Austen's work as Regency popular fiction / Barbara M. Benedict -- Austen's earliest readers and the rise of the Janeites / William Galperin -- Decadent Austen entails : Forster, James, Firbank, and the "queer taste" of Sanditon (comp. 1817, publ. 1925) / Clara Tuite -- The virago Jane Austen / Katie Trumpener -- Free and happy : Jane Austen in America / Mary A. Favret -- In face of all the servants : spectators and spies in Austen / Roger Sales -- Jane Austen and Edward Said : gender, culture, and imperialism / Susan Fraiman.
ISBN
  • 0691050058
  • 9780691050058
  • 0691050066
  • 9780691050065
LCCN
00021205
OCLC
  • ocm43333573
  • 43333573
  • SCSB-1134279
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library