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Jane Austen's textual lives :

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0191555363

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1280759135

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1423770951

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6610759138

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9780191555367

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9781280759130

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9781423770954

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9786610759132

Erroneous ISBN

0199258724

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b798327

Title Proper

Jane Austen's textual lives :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from Aeschylus to Bollywood /

First Statement of Responsibility

Kathryn Sutherland.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xix, 387 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Through three intertwined histories "Jane Austen's Textual Lives", offers a new way of approaching and reading a very familiar author. One is a history of the transmission and transformation of Jane Austen through manuscripts, critical editions, biographies, and adaptations; a second provides a conspectus of the development of English Studies as a discipline in which the original and primary place of textual criticism is recovered; and a third reviews the role of Oxford University Press in shaping a canon of English texts in the twentieth century. Jane Austen can be discovered in all three. Since her rise to celebrity status at the end of the nineteenth century, Jane Austen has occupied a position within English-speaking culture that is both popular and canonical, accessible and complexly inaccessible, fixed and certain yet wonderfully amenable to shifts of sensibility and cultural assumptions. The implied contradiction was represented in the early twentieth century by, on the one hand, the Austen family's continued management, censorship, and sentimental marketing of the sweet lady novelist of the Hampshire countryside; and on the other, by R.W.; Chapman's 1923 Clarendon Press edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, which subjected her texts to the kind of scholarly probing reserved till then for classical Greek and Roman authors obscured by centuries of attrition. It was to be almost fifty years before the Clarendon Press considered it necessary to recalibrate the reputation of another popular English novelist in this way. Beginning with specific encounters with three kinds of textual work and the problems, clues, or challenges to interpretation they continue to present, Kathryn Sutherland goes on to consider the absence of a satisfactory critical theory of biography that can help us address the partial life, and ends with a discussion of the screen adaptations through which the texts continue to live on. Throughout, "Jane Austen's Textual" identities provide a means to explore the wider issue of what text is and to argue the importance of understanding textual space as itself a powerful agent established only by recourse to further interpretations and fictions.

Title

Jane Austen's textual lives.

International Standard Book Number

0199258724

Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Adaptations-- Criticism and interpretation.

Austen, Jane,1775-1817-- Criticism, Textual.

Austen, Jane,1775-1817.

Canon (Literature)

Canon (Literature)

English Literature.

English.

Languages & Literatures.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literature-- Adaptations.

CSBF, CSK

LIT-- 004120

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Edition

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Book number

Sutherland, Kathryn.

Date of Transaction

20201207105524.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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