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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Looser, Devoney, 1967-     Subjects     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Influence.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation -- History.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.     Women novelists, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.     Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.     English literature -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Looser, Devoney, 1967-       by title:      The making of Jane A...       by call number:      823.7 A933Lo     Search the Web     Looser, Devoney, 1967-     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Influence.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation -- History.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.     Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.     Women novelists, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.     Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.     English literature -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

The making of Jane Austen / Devoney Looser by Looser, Devoney, 1967- Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Call #: 823.7 A933Lo Subjects Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Influence.   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation -- History.   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.   Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.   Women novelists, English -- 18th century -- History and criticism.   Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism.   English literature -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781421422824 (hc.) Description:  viii, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-282) and index Contents:  Introduction : Jane Austen matters -- Part I. Jane Austen, illustrated. Austen's first English illustrator : Ferdinand Pickering's Victorian sensationalism -- Visual Austen experiments : from lush landscapes to bearded heroes -- A golden age for illustrated Austen : from peacocks to photoplays -- Part II. Jane Austen, dramatized. Austen's first dramatist : Rosina Filippi's Duologues for every cultivated amateur -- Playing Mr. Darcy before Laurence Olivier : cross dressing, consuming passion, and cracking the whip -- Dear Jane : Christian spinster, feminist flirt, and shadow actress -- Stage to screen Pride and prejudice : Hollywood's Austen and its unrealized screenplays -- Part III. Jane Austen, politicized. The night of the divine Jane : men's club clashes and politics in the periodical press -- Stone-throwing Jane Austen : suffragist street activism, grand pageants, and costume parties -- Part IV. Jane Austen, schooled. The first Jane Austen dissertation : George Pellew and the human telephone -- Textbook Austens : from McGuffey's readers to National lampoon -- Coda : twenty-first-century Jane Austen Summary:  "Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser turns to the people, performances, activism, and images that fostered Austen's early fame, laying the groundwork for the beloved author we think we know. Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide. The daring director-actress Rosina Filippi shaped Austen's reputation with her pioneering dramatizations, leading thousands of young women to ventriloquize Elizabeth Bennet's audacious lines before drawing room audiences. Even the supposedly staid history of Austen scholarship has its bizarre stories. The author of the first Jane Austen dissertation, student George Pellew, tragically died young, but he was believed by many, including his professor-mentor, to have come back from the dead. Looser shows how these figures and their Austen-inspired work transformed Austen's reputation, just as she profoundly shaped theirs. Through them, Looser describes the factors and influences that radically altered Austen's evolving image. Drawing from unexplored material, Looser examines how echoes of that work reverberate in our explanations of Austen's literary and cultural power. It will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation. Devoney Looser is a professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 823.7 A933Lo Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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