Janeites : : Austen's Disciples and Devotees / / ed. by Deidre Lynch.

Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note to the Reader
  • Introduction: Sharing with Our Neighbors
  • 1 The Divine Miss Jane: Jane Austen, Janeites, and the Discipline of Novel Studies
  • 2 Jane Austen's Friendship
  • 3 Sensibility by the Numbers: Austen's Work as Regency Popular Fiction
  • 4 Austen's Earliest Readers and the Rise of the Janeites
  • 5 Decadent Austen Entails: Forster, James, Firbank, and the "Queer Taste" of Sunditon (comp. 1817, publ. 1925)
  • 6 The Virago Jane Austen
  • 7 Free and Happy: Jane Austen in America
  • 8 In Face of All the Servants: Spectators and Spies in Austen
  • 9 Jane Austen and Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index