Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen’s popular appeal and at how she is consumed today in diverse cultural venues such the digisphere, blogosphere, festivals and book clubs. It then offers new approaches to the novels within various critical contexts, including adaptation studies, fan fiction, intertextuality, and more. Collecting these new essays in one volume enables a unique view of the crossovers and divergences in engagements with Austen in different settings, and will help a comparative approach between the popular and the academic to emerge more fully in Austen studies. The book gathers insights from a range of contributors invested in new reading spaces in order to show the creative ways in which we are all adapting as we continue to read Austen’s works.
Author(s): Kerry Sinanan, Annika Bautz, Daniel Cook
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 267
City: Cham
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: ‘Gentle humour’ to ‘savage satire’: Austen Obituaries on Her Death, Its Centenary and Bicentenary
1817
1917
Austen’s Life and Novels
Nature of Her Genius
Reading Her in Context of War
2017
Austen the Woman
Novels
Gender
Humour
Realism
Conclusion
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Chapter 3: Jane Austen and Professional Fanfiction
Rewriting Austen: A Brief History
Continued and Extended
Mashups
The Austen Project
Austen at 300
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Chapter 4: Austen Among the Amateurs
Catherine Morland, Manuscript Hunter
Challenges of Survival, the Challenges of Recovery
Manuscript People: Authors, Translators, Copyists, Dedicatees, Recipients
The Clues of Format
Generic Diversity in the Archive
Reading Austen Among the Amateurs: Then and Now
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Chapter 5: Virtual Sociability and the Online Austen Classroom
Online Classes and Virtual Sociability
Asynchronous Austen
Zooming with Austen
Austen’s Enduring Impact in Social, Digital Networks
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Chapter 6: Wearing Austen
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Chapter 7: Mr Darcy, Jane Austen’s Imperial Man of Feeling
Butler’s Reading of Austen
Pride and Prejudice and Empire
Mackenzie, Feeling and Empire
Darcy and the Epistolary
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Chapter 8: Emma, Empire, and the Classics
Austen and the Classics
Emma, or the Female Pygmalion
Emma, Empire, and Abolition
EMMA. in the Age of Color-Blind and Color-Conscious Casting
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Chapter 9: Casting Mr Collins; Or How a Zombie Film Returned Us to the Novel
The Obnoxious Braggadocio
The Awkward Fool
The Insecure Young Man
Notable Mentions
Competing Moralities
Mr Collins’ Romantic Rival
Mr Collins Married
Keeping Up with the Collinses
Conclusion
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Chapter 10: Lady Susan and Love & Friendship: Laughter, Satire and the Impact of Form
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Chapter 11: Blog Softly and Carry a Big Cluebat
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Chapter 12: Virtual Jane Con: An Interview with Bianca Hernandez-Knight
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