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Title: Janeites by Deidre Lynch ISBN: 0-691-05006-6 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
Comment: I had to read this book for summer reading in 7th grade. The books they pick are usually very boring. I loved this one though. It was wonderful.
Rating: 5
Summary: For those that love Jane, or want to know why we love her
Comment: This more than just a book on Jane Austen, this is a book on Jane Austen Fans. They are called 'Janeite's' after Rudyard Kipling's famous short story "The Janeites" about a group of soldiers recovering from injuries in the First World War - and the secret, almost Mason-like, society that has been formed in the world by her fans. If only this were true!
Deidre Lynch has collected together nine essays on Austen. The collection deals with the rise and fall of Jane's popularity as an author with the public and with literary critics through the ages and in different countries. Some of these author's are at the foremost of Austen research, William Galperin whose essay is Chapter 4 is one of the names I recognise best from my past reading and his essay on Austen's earliest readers is a fascinating historical perspective that blends in well with Claudia Johnson's essay (chapter one in this book).
For American's reading this book you might be most interested in chapter seven by Mary A Favret "Free and Happy: Jane Austen in America" - which also touches on the diabolical mess of a movie made in 1940 of Pride and Prejudice starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier.
There are two interesting departures from the simple discussion of critics and culture with two essays in this book - although they are both on questions often asked by Austen Fans. Chapter 5 by Clara Tuite is on the strange and ambiguous nature (to our modern ears anyway) of entails. This issue is most relevant to Austen's book Pride and Prejudice in which the Bennett girls will be left almost penniless because of an entail - a matter which means they must marry.
The other chapter of interest is chapter 8 by Roger Sales which is on the matter of servants - or very much the lack of them in Austen.
This book is by no means one that you would read cover to cover in a single sitting, it is an academic work, and is fully footnoted etc., however some of these essays are highly readable and enjoyable. I have a feeling that most people will treat this as some kind of university text and throw it away the moment they have passed their course. However if you are an Austen Fan, or are interested in her as an author then I would recommend this. It is an excellent and varied collection which manages to answer some of the key questions asked by Austen's fans on her works. It is also a great historical look at her fans through the ages, and the reasons for the ardency of afficiando's. At least take a look at chapter one and see if Austen is the author for you.
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Title: Jane Austen in Hollywood by Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield ISBN: 0813190061 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster ISBN: 0521498678 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: Book 1) by Pamela Aidan ISBN: 0972852905 Publisher: Wytherngate Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Making of Pride and Prejudice (BBC) by Sue Birtwistle, Susie Conklin ISBN: 014025157X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro ISBN: 1589392647 Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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