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The making of Jane Austen / Devoney Looser

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Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

9781421422824 (hc.)

viii, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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

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