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A New Jane Austen
How Americans Brought Us the World's Greatest Novelist
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This richly illustrated and insightful volume will appeal to scholars of literature, particularly those interested in Jane Austen studies, as well as devoted Austen fans eager to deepen their understanding of her global reputation and the individuals who shaped it.
Revolutionizing our understanding of how Britain's best-loved novelist entered the canon, this book asserts that her enduring literary significance originated not in the UK but in America.
Revolutionizing our understanding of how Britain's best-loved novelist entered the canon, this book asserts that her enduring literary significance originated not in the UK but in America.
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Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionises our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.
Drawing on extensive research, Wells weaves together colourful, compelling case studies of men and women who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, helped readers appreciate Austen’s novels, persuasively advocated for her place in the literary canon, and preserved artefacts vital to her legacy.
Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, A New Jane Austen will inform and delight scholars and Austen fans alike.
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Praised for its engaging and accessible style despite thorough academic research, A New Jane Austen has been recognised by the Jane Austen Society of North America News as a uniquely approachable scholarly work. The Times Literary Supplement highlights Wells’s recovery of overlooked American enthusiasts, describing the book as descriptive and laudatory. Professor Jennie Batchelor of the University of Kent notes the book’s meticulous research and its success in bringing to life important but previously obscure contributors to Austen’s legacy.
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ISBN: 9781350365506
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 35 bw illus
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
Juliette Wells, Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College (USA), is the author of two acclaimed books about Jane Austen’s historic readers and fans: Reading Austen in America (2017) and Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011). For Penguin Classics, she edited Austen’s Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015).
Also by Dr Juliette Wells
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